sometimes i forget to breathe.
but we can't aspire to respire anymore.
when desperation took a seat next to me
she found cracks in my wall.

everything so vulnerable.
now debris.
we're a reflection of weakness.
they are our weakness.
so feeble my body at a hint of their glance.

she showed me something.
a box.
and in it were immortalized moments
featuring a stranger in her mirror.
she said she was once like me.
before desperation took a seat next to her.