Trigger

Trigger warnings

They're a thing now

Because we are no longer

Discreet with our words

We are no longer keeping 

Secrets

For Tyrants

We are testifying

We are accusing

We are confessing

Trigger warning

Because the footage

Is disturbing

The death

Gruesome

The details

Triggering

The details

Are triggering

The details 

Send little shivers

Through the neural pathways

That curve

Like fingers

The details

Bump the trigger

Of an already-cocked

Gun

Triggering, see

It is the essence of 

Everything

What will fire the gun

What will play with our hearts

Send the bullets 

Through our heads

Maybe if a 

Priest & a Rabbi

Walk into a bar

Or tinkling piano music plays

Or another black boy dies

The details

Trigger

Us

To laugh

Or cry

Or give up

Some of us give up

And some of us 

Run for our lives

Run and run

And some of us

Are cocked

And ready

To explode

NOW

We are on fire

NOW 

Chaos

NOW

The details

NOW

NOW

NOW

On the ground

NOW

Everything you fear

NOW

Everything that hurts you

NOW

You are triggered

NOW

People are dead

Now

We are still sorting out

The details