She said, you trusted once and everything went to shit. You learned not to trust like you learned to breathe, immediate and automatic.

She said, you loved once, build a future hinged on someone else's happiness, and everything went to shit. You learned not to love like walking, painful and unavoidable.

But I had a friend once who rolled next to me in a wheelchair and taught me that walking is overrated.

And sometimes, when you kiss me, you take my breath away.