Photographic memory

On the left, she is embraced

(by Love, by Youth, by Joy)
she smiles, languidly, bright-faced,
her hopes, her dreams: her toy.

On the right, peering from within,

is another. Maybe her mother?
Placidly, patiently, acquainted with sin,
(on good terms with quite Another).

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