Upon the cobbled, winding street,330Please respect copyright.PENANA7SmWbTqkTQ
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,330Please respect copyright.PENANAsbiZsr4WbK
A girl named Lila walked alone,330Please respect copyright.PENANARxHmlLPRKH
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,330Please respect copyright.PENANABxxJ4kZXLk
Until a window called to thee,330Please respect copyright.PENANAMSZObCbND1
A shop of relics, old and grand,330Please respect copyright.PENANAcmdz250sRX
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,330Please respect copyright.PENANAbPVc4Azpye
A painted frame—her soul deceived,330Please respect copyright.PENANAbvkVuuZUTq
For staring back with lifelike grace,330Please respect copyright.PENANAzqudyKGz9X
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,330Please respect copyright.PENANAfzFaWQ3ARF
The painted girl was bathed in light,330Please respect copyright.PENANAHGuddTE6S7
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,330Please respect copyright.PENANAjDIEN63qTR
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?330Please respect copyright.PENANANcB2w1pP73
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?330Please respect copyright.PENANA4E5W6SC1S8
With fervor rich, she asked the man,330Please respect copyright.PENANAl9VarJ3bgI
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,330Please respect copyright.PENANAmWCyIe17PB
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,330Please respect copyright.PENANAylAavh7LvY
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,330Please respect copyright.PENANAuXgP8u6Ced
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,330Please respect copyright.PENANAGWZEGDMpiX
A whisper deep within her called,330Please respect copyright.PENANAPT68cx3A1O
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,330Please respect copyright.PENANAAiYNd16X31
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,330Please respect copyright.PENANAn3yha9lWt0
In libraries and grand displays,330Please respect copyright.PENANAsKcj7e0KpO
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,330Please respect copyright.PENANA2t2HAHWDHZ
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,330Please respect copyright.PENANAfWebz3DbxO
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,330Please respect copyright.PENANAK1CD7vbUyN
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,330Please respect copyright.PENANA04yUYT3bVd
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,330Please respect copyright.PENANAJnWLCPZqqV
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,330Please respect copyright.PENANAY1c5kGUj5w
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,330Please respect copyright.PENANA8icwAfmQ1L
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,330Please respect copyright.PENANAUp5A206sf0
She saw his hands, the ink still there,330Please respect copyright.PENANAHfwhnh0nsD
And when he left, too lost in thought,330Please respect copyright.PENANAfbNUBocdtZ
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,330Please respect copyright.PENANAwY7lIbw0xR
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,330Please respect copyright.PENANAoW42VNfLmo
Then slowly turned the cover wide,330Please respect copyright.PENANAFNTehpkgDV
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,330Please respect copyright.PENANALUIhZkEE3H
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,330Please respect copyright.PENANABxkChXuCIk
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,330Please respect copyright.PENANAHi6kkw9ADF
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,330Please respect copyright.PENANAY3UQyhzq4p
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,330Please respect copyright.PENANAVDrqnUcRPM
A mystery solved, a question met,330Please respect copyright.PENANANdnj57nvPR
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,330Please respect copyright.PENANA7Z7tZW8TUW
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,330Please respect copyright.PENANAmRTAk6bDdF
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,330Please respect copyright.PENANA3DRac5LbUd
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,330Please respect copyright.PENANATcgikc4u0e
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,330Please respect copyright.PENANAkXuD3hOhrz
“I never meant for you to see,330Please respect copyright.PENANAkYMByji4F4
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,330Please respect copyright.PENANAY1FuahzWv2
Her heart now whispered his dear name,330Please respect copyright.PENANAJw6jd0dY44
The search was done, the artist known,330Please respect copyright.PENANAqhsvBbBTBy
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,330Please respect copyright.PENANAGkxXfoOln2
He’d painted her inside his heart,330Please respect copyright.PENANAGCJiLjGr7C
And now at last, her tale complete,330Please respect copyright.PENANAlITZfUV0q9
Two souls had found where they should meet.
330Please respect copyright.PENANALtvE55Ryx8