Upon the cobbled, winding street,353Please respect copyright.PENANAy2Uw877ZUK
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,353Please respect copyright.PENANAIJtfEER5EX
A girl named Lila walked alone,353Please respect copyright.PENANADa8eZDrfKP
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,353Please respect copyright.PENANAjtlQp1W9sS
Until a window called to thee,353Please respect copyright.PENANAzx833ZzNSI
A shop of relics, old and grand,353Please respect copyright.PENANAmY5kVPsiLN
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,353Please respect copyright.PENANAjAEEx1HW0l
A painted frame—her soul deceived,353Please respect copyright.PENANALBueZ5sics
For staring back with lifelike grace,353Please respect copyright.PENANAxSdZ82Ak7F
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,353Please respect copyright.PENANAKPbGta0z2P
The painted girl was bathed in light,353Please respect copyright.PENANAb2UJwp4B6A
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,353Please respect copyright.PENANAx5QJutOAZD
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?353Please respect copyright.PENANAPIwzwH2uzS
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?353Please respect copyright.PENANACOHuluxrLp
With fervor rich, she asked the man,353Please respect copyright.PENANAXIoqDs15zr
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,353Please respect copyright.PENANAHnNRizLlDN
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,353Please respect copyright.PENANAmsyg1GxyY1
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,353Please respect copyright.PENANAirXZbWPWuX
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,353Please respect copyright.PENANABIwW8qEKi4
A whisper deep within her called,353Please respect copyright.PENANAtSWMjr4HB0
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,353Please respect copyright.PENANADmMvZzwSnj
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,353Please respect copyright.PENANAiNNldX5Sow
In libraries and grand displays,353Please respect copyright.PENANAKbCoZOclxe
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,353Please respect copyright.PENANAB0nGMpbRpu
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,353Please respect copyright.PENANAve2oqFo1bQ
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,353Please respect copyright.PENANABerEMSXDr0
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,353Please respect copyright.PENANAUz3wi1BcUP
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,353Please respect copyright.PENANAFD2nu1zhfA
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,353Please respect copyright.PENANAcLTIsAkwT7
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,353Please respect copyright.PENANADVMUzVXvSg
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,353Please respect copyright.PENANAhvA18DSuzb
She saw his hands, the ink still there,353Please respect copyright.PENANArPiCgSNOkG
And when he left, too lost in thought,353Please respect copyright.PENANADlmwwni0zO
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,353Please respect copyright.PENANAV26gtRhdOr
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,353Please respect copyright.PENANA0v5PwgopTS
Then slowly turned the cover wide,353Please respect copyright.PENANAjefCTZdEra
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,353Please respect copyright.PENANAxlUk901kic
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,353Please respect copyright.PENANAKFEaHV0l4L
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,353Please respect copyright.PENANAJwObrXh1iw
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,353Please respect copyright.PENANAdaANCZiM4A
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,353Please respect copyright.PENANAjXDCPIuQn4
A mystery solved, a question met,353Please respect copyright.PENANA9GZexVXvK3
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,353Please respect copyright.PENANAeonbGdMZLl
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,353Please respect copyright.PENANAECr5ztXbie
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,353Please respect copyright.PENANAU68iJaqnWK
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,353Please respect copyright.PENANAjaR3t1LiS8
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,353Please respect copyright.PENANAGp0lt2TLhX
“I never meant for you to see,353Please respect copyright.PENANAvyk0KbYQLP
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,353Please respect copyright.PENANAtVdQkEAcaE
Her heart now whispered his dear name,353Please respect copyright.PENANA83aCnTlwxR
The search was done, the artist known,353Please respect copyright.PENANAla5PhkRh1k
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,353Please respect copyright.PENANAK8OHeh5xvi
He’d painted her inside his heart,353Please respect copyright.PENANARnLT7pHw1m
And now at last, her tale complete,353Please respect copyright.PENANAGOkVYltLLK
Two souls had found where they should meet.
353Please respect copyright.PENANAPzHbwhULt8