breathtaking

today i’ve experienced the very definition of BREATHTAKING

when her eyes, her smile wrenched me from an atmosphere
  and hurled my paralysed frame into the Void.
  i felt like Dorian Grey; i clung to the Self trapped within.
  i could not speak. i was the portrait of bewilderment.
  every attempt to breathe, to refill my deflated lungs, futile.
  i reminded my heart to beat, to beat, to beat, to beat.