Upon the cobbled, winding street,389Please respect copyright.PENANAN9i0enxgLo
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,389Please respect copyright.PENANA6CZ2nj8LJL
A girl named Lila walked alone,389Please respect copyright.PENANAZL7jvweK9S
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,389Please respect copyright.PENANAcSp0LQjXI6
Until a window called to thee,389Please respect copyright.PENANAwKYY77GceZ
A shop of relics, old and grand,389Please respect copyright.PENANA4BhzLjMpYd
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,389Please respect copyright.PENANAeFkWN7mS5G
A painted frame—her soul deceived,389Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZlWSv2pPf
For staring back with lifelike grace,389Please respect copyright.PENANACWdjDpJD5y
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,389Please respect copyright.PENANA42zopp0lro
The painted girl was bathed in light,389Please respect copyright.PENANAqt4KNDSI8G
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,389Please respect copyright.PENANALPvwCBHfyK
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?389Please respect copyright.PENANAoS1sAaK23k
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?389Please respect copyright.PENANAZlQ8Fe8jTv
With fervor rich, she asked the man,389Please respect copyright.PENANAClgEmrXYCx
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,389Please respect copyright.PENANAmlnAcJFRnz
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,389Please respect copyright.PENANAcbB5xyRCSz
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,389Please respect copyright.PENANARLV4P75uNd
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,389Please respect copyright.PENANALJJvwaeCNf
A whisper deep within her called,389Please respect copyright.PENANAYWfpsPVhiF
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,389Please respect copyright.PENANAg5CIUQjgrs
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,389Please respect copyright.PENANAwcrjIZqY1i
In libraries and grand displays,389Please respect copyright.PENANAXvUBpy2GDp
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,389Please respect copyright.PENANADLZA9FPG4j
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,389Please respect copyright.PENANAlE7Sr2QDHq
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,389Please respect copyright.PENANA0Jwdbi7l6p
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,389Please respect copyright.PENANAtVXaSuLpJn
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,389Please respect copyright.PENANAlA0ddoTfQo
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,389Please respect copyright.PENANANiX0k4AwGG
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,389Please respect copyright.PENANApBJwdOUSxa
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,389Please respect copyright.PENANA2Ibgh6Sst3
She saw his hands, the ink still there,389Please respect copyright.PENANAwukjFYAwKg
And when he left, too lost in thought,389Please respect copyright.PENANARIFGgWWNHp
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,389Please respect copyright.PENANAeXXejuM0qk
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,389Please respect copyright.PENANAuobjwsAIW5
Then slowly turned the cover wide,389Please respect copyright.PENANA2esBHZ4bLO
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,389Please respect copyright.PENANA6DF1kyuHsx
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,389Please respect copyright.PENANA8X34EpqwVE
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,389Please respect copyright.PENANAewLOTlVRQL
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,389Please respect copyright.PENANA2Oa6ekVP3n
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,389Please respect copyright.PENANA7QNOzllhYu
A mystery solved, a question met,389Please respect copyright.PENANAEsvPqdqz89
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,389Please respect copyright.PENANAQVoIwOCU20
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,389Please respect copyright.PENANA25AsCr8PCj
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,389Please respect copyright.PENANAEsmaZ6oAYP
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,389Please respect copyright.PENANAcqbieaTQLt
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,389Please respect copyright.PENANAoveSzkPP3F
“I never meant for you to see,389Please respect copyright.PENANAhsuAX5Qvdk
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,389Please respect copyright.PENANAoipjf62FM3
Her heart now whispered his dear name,389Please respect copyright.PENANAKyRGa0EpTL
The search was done, the artist known,389Please respect copyright.PENANAZrNcW3To2X
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,389Please respect copyright.PENANAreinZ88x3H
He’d painted her inside his heart,389Please respect copyright.PENANAIKhilPLMVL
And now at last, her tale complete,389Please respect copyright.PENANAV8bVcgBIkX
Two souls had found where they should meet.
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