Upon the cobbled, winding street,365Please respect copyright.PENANAHjDD0fvQcb
Through golden dusk and autumn’s fleet,365Please respect copyright.PENANAtmwdwFUzgq
A girl named Lila walked alone,365Please respect copyright.PENANA3Yb0V82ksY
With wistful dreams yet still unknown.
Her heart was light, her step was free,365Please respect copyright.PENANA41TnljD6ld
Until a window called to thee,365Please respect copyright.PENANALQo7TeNwrV
A shop of relics, old and grand,365Please respect copyright.PENANAtkkBdXgFz3
With tales held soft in time’s own hand.
But what she saw, she scarce believed,365Please respect copyright.PENANAFvfgTM2csa
A painted frame—her soul deceived,365Please respect copyright.PENANAwsED7U8eht
For staring back with lifelike grace,365Please respect copyright.PENANAEtMMM1ULNO
Was her own form, her very face.
Her breath stood still, her pulse took flight,365Please respect copyright.PENANAlEVTtkj1WV
The painted girl was bathed in light,365Please respect copyright.PENANAuG4sgsdsGs
Yet softer, fairer, lined in gold,365Please respect copyright.PENANAKr7tfp563E
A vision of herself retold.
Who made this piece? Who knew her well?365Please respect copyright.PENANACagFVeyMBM
Who caught her soul in painter’s spell?365Please respect copyright.PENANAT3XkP7NU6U
With fervor rich, she asked the man,365Please respect copyright.PENANAnLJjRJ5SZz
Who owned the shop—so old, so grand.
But shaking head and lowering gaze,365Please respect copyright.PENANAUN2n34jRcI
The keeper sighed, lost in a haze,365Please respect copyright.PENANAvgaHpPZh4O
“This portrait here? A mystery’s thread,365Please respect copyright.PENANA15UoskWCY6
No artist named, no words were said.”
And so she left, her heart enthralled,365Please respect copyright.PENANATEtydwOrTh
A whisper deep within her called,365Please respect copyright.PENANA0s3aDTSjBm
She'd search and seek, she’d find the hand,365Please respect copyright.PENANAJJ2mYyY0YT
Who traced her soul in strokes so grand.
She asked through halls of old cafes,365Please respect copyright.PENANA2Or9QLIal2
In libraries and grand displays,365Please respect copyright.PENANAGuc3l0VugV
She combed the streets, she scanned the crowd,365Please respect copyright.PENANA8o7wL7fM8k
Yet never found the one endowed.
And slowly, slowly, hope grew dim,365Please respect copyright.PENANAsgRsQqq4H8
The dream grew frail, the light fell grim,365Please respect copyright.PENANAHESrojK2u7
She told herself, “Perhaps it's fate,365Please respect copyright.PENANADr4XgFmnr5
A tale not meant to resonate.”
Then one fine day, in class she sat,365Please respect copyright.PENANApTFbqFWRNI
A silent boy, a desk, a hat,365Please respect copyright.PENANAxpEM6m9VmH
She’d seen him sketch, though never known,365Please respect copyright.PENANAw5racqszcY
What worlds upon his pages shone.
A fleeting glance, a quiet stare,365Please respect copyright.PENANA3Ti714jReI
She saw his hands, the ink still there,365Please respect copyright.PENANATCnIT5DHmC
And when he left, too lost in thought,365Please respect copyright.PENANAus8oyEjqck
A sketchbook from his grasp was caught.
It tumbled down, the pages fanned,365Please respect copyright.PENANA2UoLpj2qbj
She reached, she paused—her trembling hand,365Please respect copyright.PENANAnGUBqIM6g6
Then slowly turned the cover wide,365Please respect copyright.PENANAnootAqmj8x
And gasped at all the art inside.
For there she was, in every pose,365Please respect copyright.PENANA6qEpSf300L
In gentle light, in shadowed glows,365Please respect copyright.PENANAett10nazXo
In laughter bright, in sorrow's hue,365Please respect copyright.PENANAkrgfeoJq0N
A hundred selves in lines he drew.
She flipped and flipped, her heart so light,365Please respect copyright.PENANAe1bf6oqzzu
The brush of fate, the painter’s sight,365Please respect copyright.PENANAnxLSTTsiyg
A mystery solved, a question met,365Please respect copyright.PENANAQ8pQubGJ6v
A quiet truth in charcoal set.
And as she turned one final page,365Please respect copyright.PENANA7vnhB7W93B
She felt a gaze both warm and sage,365Please respect copyright.PENANAy0N56c5iDn
She lifted eyes—he stood so near,365Please respect copyright.PENANAoHXUe00oBU
His look was shy, yet held no fear.
“You’ve found me now,” he softly spoke,365Please respect copyright.PENANAtz20eokZqj
His voice like brushstrokes faintly woke,365Please respect copyright.PENANAcImG2cb7qc
“I never meant for you to see,365Please respect copyright.PENANAdiL6upHgLJ
But all I draw is only thee.”
Her lips curved wide, her cheeks took flame,365Please respect copyright.PENANALGZgqjPKUT
Her heart now whispered his dear name,365Please respect copyright.PENANAQCYCRzfHOH
The search was done, the artist known,365Please respect copyright.PENANAMeyIbG1wa5
And yet—she'd never been alone.
For all along, through every part,365Please respect copyright.PENANAtDqur5F0Vn
He’d painted her inside his heart,365Please respect copyright.PENANA8gXhHLEUgu
And now at last, her tale complete,365Please respect copyright.PENANAwTHEneQB74
Two souls had found where they should meet.
365Please respect copyright.PENANA15zseaVk1Z