Upon the cobbled, winding street,380Please respect copyright.PENANAJpVs7FBd52
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,380Please respect copyright.PENANANTJ0pQjtDX
A girl named Lila walked alone,380Please respect copyright.PENANAf6CFxlEUmd
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,380Please respect copyright.PENANAqGxgQEuFxN
Until a window called to thee,380Please respect copyright.PENANACSUSzC4Dss
A shop of relics, old and grand,380Please respect copyright.PENANAh8SVamvT5A
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,380Please respect copyright.PENANAHnfSHh9qLW
A painted frame—her soul deceived,380Please respect copyright.PENANAhSGiQLV4v7
For staring back with lifelike grace,380Please respect copyright.PENANAyvkyVnrf5P
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,380Please respect copyright.PENANABgNue4mFbn
The painted girl was bathed in light,380Please respect copyright.PENANAQvPh9CkafK
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,380Please respect copyright.PENANAO1YKEI47Tx
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?380Please respect copyright.PENANAH8kkUKxd8M
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?380Please respect copyright.PENANAIRLDEkhKke
With fervor rich, she asked the man,380Please respect copyright.PENANA3UMkKlG5Er
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,380Please respect copyright.PENANAP2YJMitDEw
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,380Please respect copyright.PENANAyOT2QvIRA1
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,380Please respect copyright.PENANA8DlGiwv946
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,380Please respect copyright.PENANABIwkrl2Te4
A whisper deep within her called,380Please respect copyright.PENANAFoLw8nI4zw
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,380Please respect copyright.PENANAy7v5F6ZSYb
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,380Please respect copyright.PENANAw9FcPi9TKW
In libraries and grand displays,380Please respect copyright.PENANAEyZqRIZYlF
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,380Please respect copyright.PENANABFma3HzCfa
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,380Please respect copyright.PENANApigbs2HSQA
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,380Please respect copyright.PENANAT6TNisrAmx
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,380Please respect copyright.PENANAqzmzv1pDZj
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,380Please respect copyright.PENANAhnTFNX0DOA
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,380Please respect copyright.PENANAg1esUE44bo
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,380Please respect copyright.PENANAhWDYvEQxGh
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,380Please respect copyright.PENANA4SeB2i74Ib
She saw his hands, the ink still there,380Please respect copyright.PENANAWvBVID9Iwr
And when he left, too lost in thought,380Please respect copyright.PENANAZS4z1J5sNE
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,380Please respect copyright.PENANAJaZl8OciUY
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,380Please respect copyright.PENANAAffFICPH5n
Then slowly turned the cover wide,380Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8lvxfci43
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,380Please respect copyright.PENANAxm7IYZm2cY
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,380Please respect copyright.PENANAjFzo6fOS9Z
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,380Please respect copyright.PENANAkNwHsZowVm
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,380Please respect copyright.PENANAmrJUerRTbh
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,380Please respect copyright.PENANANMGKoDaMQn
A mystery solved, a question met,380Please respect copyright.PENANA0uBFppvVDZ
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,380Please respect copyright.PENANAzxQS45lNKs
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,380Please respect copyright.PENANAyaogYvm4iA
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,380Please respect copyright.PENANACuMeYmTcXi
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,380Please respect copyright.PENANAWzbwoOuIBJ
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,380Please respect copyright.PENANA2LtUnxnWeD
“I never meant for you to see,380Please respect copyright.PENANAOdHOz8pu5c
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,380Please respect copyright.PENANApVaPaPilR9
Her heart now whispered his dear name,380Please respect copyright.PENANAtHXPu3W2rn
The search was done, the artist known,380Please respect copyright.PENANAwEIEfX7xBY
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,380Please respect copyright.PENANAojvbmj2A7u
He’d painted her inside his heart,380Please respect copyright.PENANA58w6wWX0lY
And now at last, her tale complete,380Please respect copyright.PENANAucEdeKwcKg
Two souls had found where they should meet.
380Please respect copyright.PENANASErLbXWZbQ