Tremor Triggers

Tremor Triggers 

The worst thing 
about these chemicals 
that bathes in the shadows that 
are casted by the light 
of a smile 

Is that they like to send tremors 
triggering emotional responses 
and thoughts
that you just know aren't good. 

They go after the smallest details 
that will send shivers down your spine 
and make you feel like 
that despite the good things 
plots are turning on unseen wheels 
to bring you down 
to the hell that you sadly believe
you belong

In this modern day of connectives 
where a name can simply pop up on a corner of your feed
it can disturb someone how you can go out of the way 
and ignore people 
and know that you are being ignored. 

And then the triggers keep going like quakes 
leading up to something much bigger 
but unlike a tremor 
you can fight back 
against the earthquake that you can feel 
rattling up your spine. 

Just remember sometimes you just have to 
let it go 
amongst the breeze 
as memories dance among the poppies 
leave your dreams 
and quell the shivers 
that a chapter is ending 
much quicker than you thought it was. 

As the page turns 
tears will snowflake on those final pages 
and hopefully 
the inked words that are being written 
will wash away 
and you will never truly know 
how it ends

Despite the fact I can smell smoke 
as I unknowingly burn the pages that 
will make me feel closer 
to you