Upon the cobbled, winding street,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCBUaAU8tS
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡln1XPOlni2
A girl named Lila walked alone,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjmxaQwb1d
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJpL6bSOJQ
Until a window called to thee,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9J4oq4qfvO
A shop of relics, old and grand,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarmnvCBww4
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFjJz2HHoU
A painted frame—her soul deceived,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRWP9Wyk1t
For staring back with lifelike grace,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngl0dk6FJg
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDVz4UW7Bv
The painted girl was bathed in light,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0b6vXFgEG
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mgIpyW1lm
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpe84qvaTg7
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlO4gtQSmz
With fervor rich, she asked the man,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkOzqpYY2J
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3wQYRsjQe
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqPUSDWQ0d
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡux6FXDvW2t
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHk5vtVfVY1
A whisper deep within her called,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJE8Cqd1ol
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlF4x99X0Z
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5FWQdy2Dd
In libraries and grand displays,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnl7NPKGPq
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAw5A2AJTXU
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqEFc8ze1h
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4ghOUv8NQ
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb95ISFhrG6
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bUkT6Op0D
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkZz6ga9RB
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zrllLlFoP
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBHhUtkQeN
She saw his hands, the ink still there,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZ4Q8z05Gt
And when he left, too lost in thought,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHTydkKRKs
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvi3x1Pzjl
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ49JUpbPRO
Then slowly turned the cover wide,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RMqnUPGGj
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHhgWX9Zs7
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9qp35GfSD
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOIrgkirY8
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JlQjvF0m7
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHicISfTND
A mystery solved, a question met,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfigacWtRB
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9adzZmKapV
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnTofysSNg
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5FXV8Rn1j
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxOoqHg28i
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXp0rHGOAxc
“I never meant for you to see,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdW1ZZPO6A
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1477Wpf3xh
Her heart now whispered his dear name,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbZ41fauXQ
The search was done, the artist known,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZX6RfVefFA
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOB0T0vZIp
He’d painted her inside his heart,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxaxMkYUWFh
And now at last, her tale complete,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9NA8U2nDp
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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