Upon the cobbled, winding street,379Please respect copyright.PENANAuv9UCcA9FZ
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,379Please respect copyright.PENANA7PJsTdUpU9
A girl named Lila walked alone,379Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4fZYd64fZ
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,379Please respect copyright.PENANAdn4VNByR6f
Until a window called to thee,379Please respect copyright.PENANASQjOmNJuqU
A shop of relics, old and grand,379Please respect copyright.PENANASDNUtv5vUr
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,379Please respect copyright.PENANAupnMi3v24a
A painted frame—her soul deceived,379Please respect copyright.PENANAqyzIX75zQI
For staring back with lifelike grace,379Please respect copyright.PENANABdIKPfeheS
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,379Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6kA1WyoZq
The painted girl was bathed in light,379Please respect copyright.PENANAwjHHzZQiIz
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,379Please respect copyright.PENANA28kIJjW1q0
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?379Please respect copyright.PENANAikjJouYYgi
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?379Please respect copyright.PENANAvybVw0mTGI
With fervor rich, she asked the man,379Please respect copyright.PENANAP1YCJciEC8
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,379Please respect copyright.PENANA5oYx1p1jzj
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,379Please respect copyright.PENANA56LzNOGIvO
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,379Please respect copyright.PENANAFu8pjwVO9q
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,379Please respect copyright.PENANAjVCyR0O4qu
A whisper deep within her called,379Please respect copyright.PENANAzCUEhqQ1yO
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,379Please respect copyright.PENANAsFdeCSceJW
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,379Please respect copyright.PENANAqdhFW7yxFT
In libraries and grand displays,379Please respect copyright.PENANAtaXfp2tqTk
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,379Please respect copyright.PENANAQbDfG35MCX
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,379Please respect copyright.PENANAbNKNrwGEZ0
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,379Please respect copyright.PENANAb7SzsMJVbZ
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,379Please respect copyright.PENANA2QM1OlM5BA
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,379Please respect copyright.PENANAL9gkfjOu2s
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,379Please respect copyright.PENANAZwnGvXFDxB
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,379Please respect copyright.PENANAVwpueL4fsi
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,379Please respect copyright.PENANA0cSAc2ZdH6
She saw his hands, the ink still there,379Please respect copyright.PENANAwiBfBbA2P1
And when he left, too lost in thought,379Please respect copyright.PENANAh6l8eJHqJU
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,379Please respect copyright.PENANAEtLFtiQVDG
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,379Please respect copyright.PENANA5kTxWOmJRl
Then slowly turned the cover wide,379Please respect copyright.PENANAXjYnAuPk7e
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,379Please respect copyright.PENANAVtXbjixV5R
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,379Please respect copyright.PENANAebg345dwXQ
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,379Please respect copyright.PENANAZgtB5ueGjP
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,379Please respect copyright.PENANAchtGYjGwt8
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,379Please respect copyright.PENANAygO9c4hHXe
A mystery solved, a question met,379Please respect copyright.PENANAJXdb06B5Fa
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,379Please respect copyright.PENANAZ0NCdQIU5T
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,379Please respect copyright.PENANAn4PVnFZZi2
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,379Please respect copyright.PENANA6hQdHeGtxs
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,379Please respect copyright.PENANA5NNuwzmPEl
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,379Please respect copyright.PENANAfjbzdtqedN
“I never meant for you to see,379Please respect copyright.PENANAAXHIPicBfQ
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,379Please respect copyright.PENANAzx8Egd6Pw7
Her heart now whispered his dear name,379Please respect copyright.PENANAaMJSwIR7vF
The search was done, the artist known,379Please respect copyright.PENANAYyrCd3Nh7V
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,379Please respect copyright.PENANAIKOE7Q0JeX
He’d painted her inside his heart,379Please respect copyright.PENANAN24qZ8rK23
And now at last, her tale complete,379Please respect copyright.PENANADAoxkqX7mD
Two souls had found where they should meet.
379Please respect copyright.PENANA0OExLYAlvI