Upon the cobbled, winding street,353Please respect copyright.PENANAX9PiZtKjgF
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,353Please respect copyright.PENANAg8nfrIa2KD
A girl named Lila walked alone,353Please respect copyright.PENANAgFUiU2Cikd
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,353Please respect copyright.PENANAGWZ8ti62vc
Until a window called to thee,353Please respect copyright.PENANA2rewXtTkOX
A shop of relics, old and grand,353Please respect copyright.PENANAypdT7SY70k
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,353Please respect copyright.PENANAO5KwWMA8rU
A painted frame—her soul deceived,353Please respect copyright.PENANAjA9LGbp93L
For staring back with lifelike grace,353Please respect copyright.PENANA6QsaMioK2n
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,353Please respect copyright.PENANAX2F5niZx6N
The painted girl was bathed in light,353Please respect copyright.PENANAYcWsrHF9K3
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,353Please respect copyright.PENANAwcT2syHisM
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?353Please respect copyright.PENANAczZ65N958A
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?353Please respect copyright.PENANAdgFoUgdm2D
With fervor rich, she asked the man,353Please respect copyright.PENANAYqdcnLh1Gy
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,353Please respect copyright.PENANALjuWlUc2a2
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,353Please respect copyright.PENANAs7f39T8EG0
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,353Please respect copyright.PENANAhfW5cnFAD9
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,353Please respect copyright.PENANAtZrjwmaiA8
A whisper deep within her called,353Please respect copyright.PENANA2SMnK7ZJv0
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,353Please respect copyright.PENANA54GQBeRLkJ
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,353Please respect copyright.PENANAkdYdm0dzPr
In libraries and grand displays,353Please respect copyright.PENANAhuzWMT0Ktr
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,353Please respect copyright.PENANAtH4e1hVLT1
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,353Please respect copyright.PENANA7PdVc3zmTg
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,353Please respect copyright.PENANASPjgnH4otk
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,353Please respect copyright.PENANANOMNGA2AyI
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,353Please respect copyright.PENANAJS4mG4bb75
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,353Please respect copyright.PENANAkNn8G4ZMjT
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,353Please respect copyright.PENANAGMGS8KzgJi
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,353Please respect copyright.PENANAVHM6qL5Pgh
She saw his hands, the ink still there,353Please respect copyright.PENANANV7HknlrYX
And when he left, too lost in thought,353Please respect copyright.PENANAGX2jSFcSo1
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,353Please respect copyright.PENANAfBvQpGQ2Cp
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,353Please respect copyright.PENANAuYCXyUe32y
Then slowly turned the cover wide,353Please respect copyright.PENANAw9A6RavcRw
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,353Please respect copyright.PENANAK6wJMfmEc9
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,353Please respect copyright.PENANA8oXibp5NZM
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,353Please respect copyright.PENANAvx71flQoq7
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,353Please respect copyright.PENANAlxN1VqjnWe
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,353Please respect copyright.PENANA2SPGavd15S
A mystery solved, a question met,353Please respect copyright.PENANA4ly86AJ8Rg
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,353Please respect copyright.PENANABWBUex8zCL
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,353Please respect copyright.PENANAxZI2EoFqF7
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,353Please respect copyright.PENANACHizYEPpOC
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,353Please respect copyright.PENANAhYTs6TT68C
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,353Please respect copyright.PENANAHZK3NBgzke
“I never meant for you to see,353Please respect copyright.PENANAieQezGCtmK
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,353Please respect copyright.PENANA2lIsTT4TE8
Her heart now whispered his dear name,353Please respect copyright.PENANAzThKwLbn92
The search was done, the artist known,353Please respect copyright.PENANACsTaKK3O6h
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,353Please respect copyright.PENANATmxNX0MhiF
He’d painted her inside his heart,353Please respect copyright.PENANAZEuFh49ebE
And now at last, her tale complete,353Please respect copyright.PENANAI29EZRcRFq
Two souls had found where they should meet.
353Please respect copyright.PENANAaa5Ov7T5w9