Trigger Words

Certain words turn us around

or stop us dead within our tracks,

we pick ourselves up of the ground

while trying to comprehend the facts.

We’re products of our own emotions

triggered by our past ordeals

at any moment self-imploding

by the scars that never heal.

The words you shared have struck a nerve

then scattered like a ricochet,

I hold my temper in reserve

my dissonance on full display.

Only so much one can stand

there's hell to pay on reprimand.

© Ginny Brannan 2018