Upon the cobbled, winding street,265Please respect copyright.PENANArEY5wDcr0o
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,265Please respect copyright.PENANATOaFqW4BK2
A girl named Lila walked alone,265Please respect copyright.PENANA21pXeHBBXV
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,265Please respect copyright.PENANAH0j0RmLfXe
Until a window called to thee,265Please respect copyright.PENANAtZ8sCNBHHK
A shop of relics, old and grand,265Please respect copyright.PENANANfDhPRxuem
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,265Please respect copyright.PENANAhIVCxIgmPj
A painted frame—her soul deceived,265Please respect copyright.PENANA7DkbJZoIRo
For staring back with lifelike grace,265Please respect copyright.PENANA2dz84W7i3b
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,265Please respect copyright.PENANAKH2nfPkJJu
The painted girl was bathed in light,265Please respect copyright.PENANAI78VB5VBuz
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,265Please respect copyright.PENANAkpIElCm1NG
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?265Please respect copyright.PENANAYIc80LuAiE
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?265Please respect copyright.PENANA2LrkvVicfI
With fervor rich, she asked the man,265Please respect copyright.PENANAwHahQhLN6A
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,265Please respect copyright.PENANADAttxRyfJb
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,265Please respect copyright.PENANA1e9ZfPg57D
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,265Please respect copyright.PENANAMFeonSfevq
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,265Please respect copyright.PENANA9UI4ksfOnU
A whisper deep within her called,265Please respect copyright.PENANAhDlOncg8Ir
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,265Please respect copyright.PENANAjkjMMbWGZ6
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,265Please respect copyright.PENANARKMcmJqhVe
In libraries and grand displays,265Please respect copyright.PENANAIJHBBT7iN0
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,265Please respect copyright.PENANAfkBSr7WSbg
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,265Please respect copyright.PENANAl52hONTBAf
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,265Please respect copyright.PENANAYJQxcyE0qh
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,265Please respect copyright.PENANA3hxQXsctjc
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,265Please respect copyright.PENANAnMi1AShviA
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,265Please respect copyright.PENANABvVHEF8JSG
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,265Please respect copyright.PENANA7rVRVxSJBT
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,265Please respect copyright.PENANAdbaze5r5Zz
She saw his hands, the ink still there,265Please respect copyright.PENANAGJCqPAuqKF
And when he left, too lost in thought,265Please respect copyright.PENANA5IBJvFidwz
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,265Please respect copyright.PENANAiYWOXnch1X
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,265Please respect copyright.PENANAeWzD3OOOZj
Then slowly turned the cover wide,265Please respect copyright.PENANAWHOq2LkUtP
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,265Please respect copyright.PENANAOa9wNV61pC
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,265Please respect copyright.PENANAu2HjnMBxlm
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,265Please respect copyright.PENANAUMdW99sI71
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,265Please respect copyright.PENANAvxMMYizkRO
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,265Please respect copyright.PENANADcZz8SVMRH
A mystery solved, a question met,265Please respect copyright.PENANAe9nGiYf1Ll
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,265Please respect copyright.PENANAyKWY6kHEyu
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,265Please respect copyright.PENANAcdzuxDCauj
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,265Please respect copyright.PENANAVLWobEBjsY
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,265Please respect copyright.PENANA6eCHPEIcF4
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,265Please respect copyright.PENANASN07MHrXCm
“I never meant for you to see,265Please respect copyright.PENANABloqFrxzzg
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,265Please respect copyright.PENANAsKZsLb5R60
Her heart now whispered his dear name,265Please respect copyright.PENANAO9IF0Bv9Do
The search was done, the artist known,265Please respect copyright.PENANA3enWbqSZkV
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,265Please respect copyright.PENANAt51fQ765jr
He’d painted her inside his heart,265Please respect copyright.PENANAtk8eqT8kwr
And now at last, her tale complete,265Please respect copyright.PENANAyMpozhhG4P
Two souls had found where they should meet.
265Please respect copyright.PENANAHTn1NGzgmK