Invisible restraints tug at my core. My head screams “just do it" but my body refuses.
Faint voices of inner traumas e c h o as I try to drown them out but the second and third and fourth iterations scream in its meek disguise.
Sit still. Don’t listen. It’s going to be okay.
No No No it’s not. retract. This is not safe. This is not okay.