Upon the cobbled, winding street,380Please respect copyright.PENANAhsgE0795NO
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,380Please respect copyright.PENANA0QLrjDJdbT
A girl named Lila walked alone,380Please respect copyright.PENANAsFyivXyV2V
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,380Please respect copyright.PENANAB0yLnGTqYB
Until a window called to thee,380Please respect copyright.PENANAxwTExyA1V5
A shop of relics, old and grand,380Please respect copyright.PENANAoJGVGHNmE6
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,380Please respect copyright.PENANAcUZr3NG367
A painted frame—her soul deceived,380Please respect copyright.PENANACrfMPg8pjs
For staring back with lifelike grace,380Please respect copyright.PENANAIY8SHdHmBm
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,380Please respect copyright.PENANAwn901xjz5e
The painted girl was bathed in light,380Please respect copyright.PENANAgVrYkt4MyA
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,380Please respect copyright.PENANAWGM0fMrXsa
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?380Please respect copyright.PENANAm9yNyoVp58
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?380Please respect copyright.PENANAoBpvV1auAO
With fervor rich, she asked the man,380Please respect copyright.PENANA7gNXe008kP
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,380Please respect copyright.PENANAs8AurJy84o
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,380Please respect copyright.PENANAdYr2Cz8i2b
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,380Please respect copyright.PENANAk5EAiuDwdA
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,380Please respect copyright.PENANAkxRYSALvZw
A whisper deep within her called,380Please respect copyright.PENANAoiBSOWIPpo
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,380Please respect copyright.PENANA5CtozZmqFL
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,380Please respect copyright.PENANAtjqmVmFmph
In libraries and grand displays,380Please respect copyright.PENANADjMdt4uRza
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,380Please respect copyright.PENANAW9YZZIhjnr
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,380Please respect copyright.PENANAEOocgdG034
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,380Please respect copyright.PENANASCtdIZqt48
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,380Please respect copyright.PENANAWUhnF1cFVg
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,380Please respect copyright.PENANAxgnf9DoVqf
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,380Please respect copyright.PENANAW4tQnvW1K6
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,380Please respect copyright.PENANAutaNi42Kiu
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,380Please respect copyright.PENANApWWEi8DcFZ
She saw his hands, the ink still there,380Please respect copyright.PENANAusyk7wXo5v
And when he left, too lost in thought,380Please respect copyright.PENANA1rEPuskidZ
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,380Please respect copyright.PENANAfVEyxSqSkd
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,380Please respect copyright.PENANAVhk7vZTh5w
Then slowly turned the cover wide,380Please respect copyright.PENANAHnIoIkXsAE
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,380Please respect copyright.PENANADLHcdgRbnL
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,380Please respect copyright.PENANASnz8yQPKb2
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,380Please respect copyright.PENANAAmg85sDdD5
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,380Please respect copyright.PENANAA57aP5xodl
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,380Please respect copyright.PENANAKIvbGMMDVf
A mystery solved, a question met,380Please respect copyright.PENANA6yJJ7FWO2f
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,380Please respect copyright.PENANA5WcdiuPTbc
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,380Please respect copyright.PENANAzKpePUg2VT
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,380Please respect copyright.PENANAdHEWnFenIs
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,380Please respect copyright.PENANAj6luuj6ExA
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,380Please respect copyright.PENANAaG92xtzsjV
“I never meant for you to see,380Please respect copyright.PENANA6aY4kxHZ3q
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,380Please respect copyright.PENANAOfvxaWynAD
Her heart now whispered his dear name,380Please respect copyright.PENANAwBZjGYWFTv
The search was done, the artist known,380Please respect copyright.PENANA1wTKhVSbwZ
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,380Please respect copyright.PENANArbZ2XNik8P
He’d painted her inside his heart,380Please respect copyright.PENANAUcwi6Pf0R4
And now at last, her tale complete,380Please respect copyright.PENANAvGplrFg7no
Two souls had found where they should meet.
380Please respect copyright.PENANAwFFrSntWdD