Upon the cobbled, winding street,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRB64lObIk
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8GqhsDCFt
A girl named Lila walked alone,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrn2M6THUpD
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUUoyXbHH6
Until a window called to thee,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhchsVrHiy
A shop of relics, old and grand,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkkxxzYXDl
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKu9gJPtDYY
A painted frame—her soul deceived,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXTkPBgBIZ
For staring back with lifelike grace,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5dA0TOUUN
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2oISLsgN5
The painted girl was bathed in light,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeS4LV1gBw7
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADnoAe0mNz
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pt9HtyE3W
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWv5O5JCLcy
With fervor rich, she asked the man,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRoeULgjFi
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbvbv3BX0u
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDf7sNtRlx
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyT9ofKGzI
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHegwkkx5AR
A whisper deep within her called,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHQeLGbMzl
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5Qsq360Qx
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQMKWDuV4H
In libraries and grand displays,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWUb36He02
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXlsGiKJty
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSSOerRH60
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jiUbfwYVW
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKL6Piwq8k8
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPLmysF3tn
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOqXq7vWp5
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡio1zIa1MFi
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzeG5x0C7T
She saw his hands, the ink still there,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtwBSO8sPB
And when he left, too lost in thought,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvON49h1Lhj
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMqy6xfWI6
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMwUABygVr
Then slowly turned the cover wide,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhHyD0qNEJ
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1h5GNka66t
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhmOEeQuzb
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjQ9x9aWb3
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKixp6iYDI
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbk7CmL7nL8
A mystery solved, a question met,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJzpKXuzfR
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdU6vrs59h
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjPomn94zp
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQgvgK4AbI
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVp5Mjav6W0
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgW0KM6kmP
“I never meant for you to see,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14H9durs0R
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dwIsl3Dln
Her heart now whispered his dear name,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XVJnefakH
The search was done, the artist known,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemeuqQMivw
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TzXxOXaqq
He’d painted her inside his heart,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxH6zkJP9B7
And now at last, her tale complete,41Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPc8pJPuK4e
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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