Upon the cobbled, winding street,378Please respect copyright.PENANA1eWSbPS5GU
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,378Please respect copyright.PENANAjkPxiAOp0m
A girl named Lila walked alone,378Please respect copyright.PENANASV7sowFZeo
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,378Please respect copyright.PENANAiLyPJlvgT6
Until a window called to thee,378Please respect copyright.PENANAeC4KUbOU5j
A shop of relics, old and grand,378Please respect copyright.PENANAf82HJoQh7H
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,378Please respect copyright.PENANAhaHjyV5ZKA
A painted frame—her soul deceived,378Please respect copyright.PENANAZvua3faPCh
For staring back with lifelike grace,378Please respect copyright.PENANAhEBgQDyhOQ
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,378Please respect copyright.PENANAXU7fI9fPfd
The painted girl was bathed in light,378Please respect copyright.PENANAZlZhhlrmxl
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,378Please respect copyright.PENANANWX4gTs5bQ
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?378Please respect copyright.PENANA3rKQM8CZE4
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?378Please respect copyright.PENANAszJM9nPDNS
With fervor rich, she asked the man,378Please respect copyright.PENANAaKN5HeRXYM
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,378Please respect copyright.PENANA7LgT4IKHno
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,378Please respect copyright.PENANA1NVAbNpcyY
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,378Please respect copyright.PENANAbE0rRo5NEi
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,378Please respect copyright.PENANAkJQPSXkM3k
A whisper deep within her called,378Please respect copyright.PENANA7bv0AaWuYA
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,378Please respect copyright.PENANAypfwkQCnJ3
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,378Please respect copyright.PENANAwL78f99xoa
In libraries and grand displays,378Please respect copyright.PENANA587Yyk6a7H
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,378Please respect copyright.PENANA4K1R5P2Nrd
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,378Please respect copyright.PENANAucmSFgykdU
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,378Please respect copyright.PENANAYDqurTxJ75
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,378Please respect copyright.PENANAHTJ6vQ88jG
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,378Please respect copyright.PENANA0L742LGG06
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,378Please respect copyright.PENANA5jJSE0l4vM
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,378Please respect copyright.PENANAUVZoCmZzgF
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,378Please respect copyright.PENANALG7ev23OYf
She saw his hands, the ink still there,378Please respect copyright.PENANAAH1eiEU18R
And when he left, too lost in thought,378Please respect copyright.PENANAcFypcnNUDR
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,378Please respect copyright.PENANAavr1zeklb0
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,378Please respect copyright.PENANA0DCiJGV3Mn
Then slowly turned the cover wide,378Please respect copyright.PENANAoYcR80ZqHD
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,378Please respect copyright.PENANAR4vtozUMXX
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,378Please respect copyright.PENANA1XRqNLsrr3
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,378Please respect copyright.PENANAtPIlXlw7NX
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,378Please respect copyright.PENANA4pB2o9xmjS
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,378Please respect copyright.PENANApdw4biYwse
A mystery solved, a question met,378Please respect copyright.PENANAkibEREFXug
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,378Please respect copyright.PENANAvqk9i9Tnpq
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,378Please respect copyright.PENANAOsum85Mcnx
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,378Please respect copyright.PENANApjdkKjRTAb
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,378Please respect copyright.PENANAIYyOa1JKN6
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,378Please respect copyright.PENANAePHc6G7Lv2
“I never meant for you to see,378Please respect copyright.PENANAZki5tbA9KD
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,378Please respect copyright.PENANA7PRw0TIknX
Her heart now whispered his dear name,378Please respect copyright.PENANA1FqPJNayp7
The search was done, the artist known,378Please respect copyright.PENANAEMO46alN1f
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,378Please respect copyright.PENANAdNjgpG0j7a
He’d painted her inside his heart,378Please respect copyright.PENANAEERd20GvDD
And now at last, her tale complete,378Please respect copyright.PENANArGD4COwiZ0
Two souls had found where they should meet.
378Please respect copyright.PENANAkQdyJQOLxQ