Upon the cobbled, winding street,283Please respect copyright.PENANAIyV3SNvFHN
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,283Please respect copyright.PENANAqLkHaxSQHI
A girl named Lila walked alone,283Please respect copyright.PENANAfStiIk8DmE
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,283Please respect copyright.PENANA5g9KavQJcb
Until a window called to thee,283Please respect copyright.PENANAwKcPvVtrqR
A shop of relics, old and grand,283Please respect copyright.PENANA7fDCadPejV
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,283Please respect copyright.PENANAj2QOjDBIeu
A painted frame—her soul deceived,283Please respect copyright.PENANADTVVEo4nwA
For staring back with lifelike grace,283Please respect copyright.PENANA8pM95o5Xck
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,283Please respect copyright.PENANA5BZ2rZW651
The painted girl was bathed in light,283Please respect copyright.PENANAM3XGoTJjtU
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,283Please respect copyright.PENANABhmsjTmPcK
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?283Please respect copyright.PENANAAcZpZHw6fq
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?283Please respect copyright.PENANAaqRIlwpVTi
With fervor rich, she asked the man,283Please respect copyright.PENANAykJCEWhU8o
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,283Please respect copyright.PENANA5RvOMvZFX6
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,283Please respect copyright.PENANAUUduDeeNrZ
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,283Please respect copyright.PENANA1hwKr8epTZ
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,283Please respect copyright.PENANAxCAU7NENOb
A whisper deep within her called,283Please respect copyright.PENANAW73nimqepL
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,283Please respect copyright.PENANAjXRmaU0hLc
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,283Please respect copyright.PENANANj8sabeGSI
In libraries and grand displays,283Please respect copyright.PENANAvP1MRtDuJQ
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,283Please respect copyright.PENANASrQ5BQM8PK
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,283Please respect copyright.PENANASqAwvSsfoy
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,283Please respect copyright.PENANAf8ka5Vmtao
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,283Please respect copyright.PENANAkTqn60YSlU
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,283Please respect copyright.PENANAWVms7x84BB
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,283Please respect copyright.PENANAOJMYJfnsZI
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,283Please respect copyright.PENANAyILAEAcC1Q
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,283Please respect copyright.PENANAVixD8BfFlc
She saw his hands, the ink still there,283Please respect copyright.PENANAnf0JEbaigR
And when he left, too lost in thought,283Please respect copyright.PENANAYpwMuRSxcc
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,283Please respect copyright.PENANAzeJCMOy5UD
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,283Please respect copyright.PENANAKSmZq2w4lP
Then slowly turned the cover wide,283Please respect copyright.PENANAwcse4aIAuD
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,283Please respect copyright.PENANAet6pM276lw
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,283Please respect copyright.PENANAsSg1zS3i9B
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,283Please respect copyright.PENANAUYCQutMcmK
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,283Please respect copyright.PENANAublFKcCeLH
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,283Please respect copyright.PENANACY153Yx8KC
A mystery solved, a question met,283Please respect copyright.PENANAVEWhDJHY0j
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,283Please respect copyright.PENANAG8fQfymDM5
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,283Please respect copyright.PENANAGzCfnQxe6L
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,283Please respect copyright.PENANArIcgxkIzgR
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,283Please respect copyright.PENANA0kmPuhxefx
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,283Please respect copyright.PENANAHjtka2JReo
“I never meant for you to see,283Please respect copyright.PENANAhMAtEPHOK7
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,283Please respect copyright.PENANAzk67TFCWXm
Her heart now whispered his dear name,283Please respect copyright.PENANA9xhGSWaoJo
The search was done, the artist known,283Please respect copyright.PENANAdferDxtvC0
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,283Please respect copyright.PENANAea6ZA3oehZ
He’d painted her inside his heart,283Please respect copyright.PENANASsrM741t3C
And now at last, her tale complete,283Please respect copyright.PENANAwHyaejJqxI
Two souls had found where they should meet.
283Please respect copyright.PENANA9PKEeAshVu