Has anyone ever been triggered by a love story?

A benign yet extraordinary one that we hear again and again.

Trigger, such a weird word in a weird language where emotions get abbreviated,

Pain, despair, anger, desperation all wrapped up in one simple word, trigger!

As I sit and listen to the story, emotions come crawl up from deep dark depth.

As his face brightens, my shoulder droop, my heart stops, and the guilt overwhelms.

In last few months I have been told, unasked I need to cleanse my life by friends,

My intentions are well known for being as dark as my features and unapologetic as myself.

Is this world and all its happiness is stored for the cleansed, bright and apologetic ones?

Then why did I come? When did I get here? When did I lose my right to be loved and to love?

Trigger, a simplistic word to abbreviate so many emotions desperately, despair, anger, desperation.