Upon the cobbled, winding street,385Please respect copyright.PENANADZ6OFvJNLU
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,385Please respect copyright.PENANAipASgkDf6c
A girl named Lila walked alone,385Please respect copyright.PENANAzaty0ciAh2
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,385Please respect copyright.PENANA46uEaARrAi
Until a window called to thee,385Please respect copyright.PENANA7dNNCfPoCS
A shop of relics, old and grand,385Please respect copyright.PENANAZuCuON2IDj
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,385Please respect copyright.PENANA3IKZt2a3hd
A painted frame—her soul deceived,385Please respect copyright.PENANAbRbtVVuMtE
For staring back with lifelike grace,385Please respect copyright.PENANAXx574CXR2r
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,385Please respect copyright.PENANAYUFKxXXHu6
The painted girl was bathed in light,385Please respect copyright.PENANAXQZ08LDvnz
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,385Please respect copyright.PENANAbopkSerab2
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?385Please respect copyright.PENANA9R8X0PPKyH
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?385Please respect copyright.PENANAuIZnquivcr
With fervor rich, she asked the man,385Please respect copyright.PENANA1YvDKLIQfp
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,385Please respect copyright.PENANAlkxNYzjynK
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,385Please respect copyright.PENANAswUmqzl20P
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,385Please respect copyright.PENANAS90ZVfrAZK
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,385Please respect copyright.PENANA7OZNahYJj9
A whisper deep within her called,385Please respect copyright.PENANAyi9ax17I4N
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,385Please respect copyright.PENANAj2DSLLC1KF
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,385Please respect copyright.PENANAuzFQLnIJUI
In libraries and grand displays,385Please respect copyright.PENANAe9yyAqfQQI
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,385Please respect copyright.PENANAWGv0M2LtJ2
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,385Please respect copyright.PENANANUhfdEAg2T
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,385Please respect copyright.PENANAbzkYYhSsuc
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,385Please respect copyright.PENANAX56LsDmKE1
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,385Please respect copyright.PENANAg6p5qPTiMh
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,385Please respect copyright.PENANAgJQ4dZXzDz
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,385Please respect copyright.PENANAD0ALdPnRsR
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,385Please respect copyright.PENANASXN9ksIE9B
She saw his hands, the ink still there,385Please respect copyright.PENANAIcUYhTthpS
And when he left, too lost in thought,385Please respect copyright.PENANAbqTUUeWxYt
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,385Please respect copyright.PENANA7U8k5ergki
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,385Please respect copyright.PENANAvSEdniz7NA
Then slowly turned the cover wide,385Please respect copyright.PENANA5levPA4yeq
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,385Please respect copyright.PENANA2Aj2IBfgVr
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,385Please respect copyright.PENANAMq5P7g5goN
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,385Please respect copyright.PENANA3w4Pv3y7No
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,385Please respect copyright.PENANAT03mow1gVx
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,385Please respect copyright.PENANA7UV5p2EPKf
A mystery solved, a question met,385Please respect copyright.PENANAa4kv0jIrbc
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,385Please respect copyright.PENANAkzQ1RReIiV
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,385Please respect copyright.PENANAxrwnYNl3sL
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,385Please respect copyright.PENANAa8neQwnjRb
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,385Please respect copyright.PENANAxmuZqna4eN
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,385Please respect copyright.PENANACjfRWVVY6Z
“I never meant for you to see,385Please respect copyright.PENANAiFHAy5ZYca
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,385Please respect copyright.PENANAXoi9UJ2VVh
Her heart now whispered his dear name,385Please respect copyright.PENANAg351nN8IJc
The search was done, the artist known,385Please respect copyright.PENANAxqrB29bOi9
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,385Please respect copyright.PENANAJ5tzLLgpw7
He’d painted her inside his heart,385Please respect copyright.PENANAc5rqf8J8cF
And now at last, her tale complete,385Please respect copyright.PENANAX0r8NP2fkD
Two souls had found where they should meet.
385Please respect copyright.PENANAkA4kADCiuR