Upon the cobbled, winding street,353Please respect copyright.PENANAeyVk8puA4s
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,353Please respect copyright.PENANAhV6uqTkU78
A girl named Lila walked alone,353Please respect copyright.PENANALxl5pdZ51K
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,353Please respect copyright.PENANAwe6t4PN4gF
Until a window called to thee,353Please respect copyright.PENANAB2oCccbxs9
A shop of relics, old and grand,353Please respect copyright.PENANAmpRewVAMNy
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,353Please respect copyright.PENANAppGRrGki35
A painted frame—her soul deceived,353Please respect copyright.PENANAr49hiqmpTa
For staring back with lifelike grace,353Please respect copyright.PENANAUOwkOOYgav
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,353Please respect copyright.PENANAXdYAWYyCI3
The painted girl was bathed in light,353Please respect copyright.PENANAwKJwUTyZ9l
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,353Please respect copyright.PENANAH3ldps3urO
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?353Please respect copyright.PENANAveNuk1vrIG
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?353Please respect copyright.PENANAczoYsSpdDW
With fervor rich, she asked the man,353Please respect copyright.PENANASs2F95Oxrs
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,353Please respect copyright.PENANAq15xilR98i
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,353Please respect copyright.PENANAB7HraPxH6L
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,353Please respect copyright.PENANAyXVVkXwjCC
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,353Please respect copyright.PENANA9GeW2MoyoX
A whisper deep within her called,353Please respect copyright.PENANA0Sr18un4dj
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,353Please respect copyright.PENANAgEfJRQ6ZfF
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,353Please respect copyright.PENANAlTg8pmvSyX
In libraries and grand displays,353Please respect copyright.PENANANrgcohWnRD
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,353Please respect copyright.PENANAgX3Sty7RlY
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,353Please respect copyright.PENANAx0ZXGN0oyk
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,353Please respect copyright.PENANA3dLVxt3Qzc
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,353Please respect copyright.PENANAuWPKj24uT8
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,353Please respect copyright.PENANAiEGIzs9Wei
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,353Please respect copyright.PENANAiZMrAi3pmS
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,353Please respect copyright.PENANAHXRuGO6gyJ
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,353Please respect copyright.PENANA7Qkrbg1zxp
She saw his hands, the ink still there,353Please respect copyright.PENANA5eGJLpffK1
And when he left, too lost in thought,353Please respect copyright.PENANAXvV9jujrd0
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,353Please respect copyright.PENANAdoniYLwcDJ
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,353Please respect copyright.PENANA2A20f7cOrb
Then slowly turned the cover wide,353Please respect copyright.PENANAlV6H396xyB
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,353Please respect copyright.PENANAkgnFfYKIbO
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,353Please respect copyright.PENANAF4Zshgh5pp
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,353Please respect copyright.PENANAkPgFbqXqFf
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,353Please respect copyright.PENANAlGi995kX5L
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,353Please respect copyright.PENANArTn6HSz7Vg
A mystery solved, a question met,353Please respect copyright.PENANAtb7KzlwgqE
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,353Please respect copyright.PENANAXzgtjZzz9m
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,353Please respect copyright.PENANAb653PRA32W
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,353Please respect copyright.PENANAQHebuiTMDO
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,353Please respect copyright.PENANA03zShP1ETP
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,353Please respect copyright.PENANAVstDpjZjD4
“I never meant for you to see,353Please respect copyright.PENANAizXvamRnfs
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,353Please respect copyright.PENANARoLeVBfLCE
Her heart now whispered his dear name,353Please respect copyright.PENANAxzVGme8V7Y
The search was done, the artist known,353Please respect copyright.PENANAjV8niCRt5d
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,353Please respect copyright.PENANA9dBbN07Eyj
He’d painted her inside his heart,353Please respect copyright.PENANANpItAQvnV3
And now at last, her tale complete,353Please respect copyright.PENANAOnd2bmWZCs
Two souls had found where they should meet.
353Please respect copyright.PENANAZFiEzLQSJf