Upon the cobbled, winding street,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0mSmdm7Vx
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOB6T6cqhQK
A girl named Lila walked alone,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWaBkDrp81
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlfCR7YiZA
Until a window called to thee,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuB9omCLvD
A shop of relics, old and grand,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyoP1uY0hY
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcsl3nYpl6
A painted frame—her soul deceived,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPC9QklLuJY
For staring back with lifelike grace,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE79m027WER
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfA8veMKqWD
The painted girl was bathed in light,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQ5wi9GF5n
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDj1XZizQfA
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWdp4yRplX
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPU1SwwzcqV
With fervor rich, she asked the man,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl21BJbQrFp
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8u8yuqFRYB
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XaKxMexai
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6T4JEPrTuf
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmIOYBzBgb
A whisper deep within her called,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiG4gRqXtC
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGQwTlBnjT
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4r6gQE52c7
In libraries and grand displays,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LvxIQNPTm
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAsxH5eLV5
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5zNdFGruf
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsmIGhJFBq
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUlGay4YU0
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgCgUwcRYj
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUncC0KWWAM
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIN3qumIM4
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdG3HmfM0r
She saw his hands, the ink still there,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1kpG2WjLV
And when he left, too lost in thought,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkEYqSOfem
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlN4MakG9Kq
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSLulxPqNI
Then slowly turned the cover wide,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JIWk0SUOu
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpgrZ245DI
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKt0otYwhr2
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiahXYrx3G
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLURz2FXBb
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWIkPGMjmt
A mystery solved, a question met,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55a7u8BZZN
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAtsOdFnYh
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkRM5w0XJL
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl98rkMzbqi
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz34l9npY7N
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmwyZ05frL
“I never meant for you to see,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzshTbovqq8
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mr83UIbcn
Her heart now whispered his dear name,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBfnGdaqA3
The search was done, the artist known,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡordraEwpLb
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtJqunYi8P
He’d painted her inside his heart,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbu6sFpsMH
And now at last, her tale complete,38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopYNEDXywN
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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