Upon the cobbled, winding street,287Please respect copyright.PENANAns6SCPfMA5
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,287Please respect copyright.PENANAB6Cz4VLgPQ
A girl named Lila walked alone,287Please respect copyright.PENANAERjAJIJHxz
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,287Please respect copyright.PENANAL1kv3HGDze
Until a window called to thee,287Please respect copyright.PENANAtfm4050wur
A shop of relics, old and grand,287Please respect copyright.PENANAZduKl8aLTp
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,287Please respect copyright.PENANAGaktfHtHkw
A painted frame—her soul deceived,287Please respect copyright.PENANAuZS2fQ863W
For staring back with lifelike grace,287Please respect copyright.PENANAgmgbBU1ZMa
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,287Please respect copyright.PENANAZVeFtzWib0
The painted girl was bathed in light,287Please respect copyright.PENANAEAzn8cky32
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,287Please respect copyright.PENANA8lH1TiICgs
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?287Please respect copyright.PENANAohAdCOZJqQ
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?287Please respect copyright.PENANA8eebRYisSB
With fervor rich, she asked the man,287Please respect copyright.PENANApCVYwyN1oR
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,287Please respect copyright.PENANAoyyHdynCKG
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,287Please respect copyright.PENANAgBM6SLMhHZ
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,287Please respect copyright.PENANA1aeeFVlm42
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,287Please respect copyright.PENANAMD1Fh3EALH
A whisper deep within her called,287Please respect copyright.PENANA6iiRD775Rl
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,287Please respect copyright.PENANAoz8dqpRsqi
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,287Please respect copyright.PENANAKApY7uUZjk
In libraries and grand displays,287Please respect copyright.PENANAS6GPrys0Bv
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,287Please respect copyright.PENANATY7Dhjdf3Y
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,287Please respect copyright.PENANA4vt3kn0mbb
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,287Please respect copyright.PENANAsTPfqt4oOl
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,287Please respect copyright.PENANAFcASOFgBj8
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,287Please respect copyright.PENANAoE97cVOQ0I
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,287Please respect copyright.PENANA28JRJC6d7S
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,287Please respect copyright.PENANA6XjwgWvfZc
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,287Please respect copyright.PENANAxnS9643CdE
She saw his hands, the ink still there,287Please respect copyright.PENANAgZGHlenLtE
And when he left, too lost in thought,287Please respect copyright.PENANA2wgofCFUxg
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,287Please respect copyright.PENANAGvnxoCx7fw
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,287Please respect copyright.PENANAwQoV81Qwlk
Then slowly turned the cover wide,287Please respect copyright.PENANAbPweCePL1u
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,287Please respect copyright.PENANA4caXWWFQQI
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,287Please respect copyright.PENANAldNJRmsVTe
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,287Please respect copyright.PENANAsngmk1sZjl
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,287Please respect copyright.PENANA2ExsVaZ8GA
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,287Please respect copyright.PENANA4JFko9m1M1
A mystery solved, a question met,287Please respect copyright.PENANAQEjP1kQ0le
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,287Please respect copyright.PENANAjBWulpF1tF
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,287Please respect copyright.PENANAThRSxG5srg
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,287Please respect copyright.PENANAOwz8JwjFVl
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,287Please respect copyright.PENANAlkTHL6ydIU
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,287Please respect copyright.PENANACn4E8fDGho
“I never meant for you to see,287Please respect copyright.PENANATHiNlVI5ks
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,287Please respect copyright.PENANAgevqRGTYol
Her heart now whispered his dear name,287Please respect copyright.PENANAogztw4VngM
The search was done, the artist known,287Please respect copyright.PENANAhL7AbEWSDV
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,287Please respect copyright.PENANA2cYyuLAlEA
He’d painted her inside his heart,287Please respect copyright.PENANAp3Xqpu2OzV
And now at last, her tale complete,287Please respect copyright.PENANAyax1bHE10y
Two souls had found where they should meet.
287Please respect copyright.PENANAvv06pbYGBR