shadows of persuasion spark memories to lend a smile. even lust craves a variation of name.

reluctant is exploration, weighed by suffering, long-believed to have earned eternal rest.

vulnerable and modest, too proud to admit the wretched pain smuggled from place to place, nervously entangled in the phantom space existing between her legs.

drawn upward in pretense like the smile, now swollen and spoiled by rotted belief.