Trigger warning,
The following may elicit feelings
You don’t want to feel,
It may remind you of things
You don’t want to think about,
It may call for you to examine
Uncomfortable aspects of yourself
That you work hard to ignore,
Trigger warning,
You may experience vulnerable emotions like
Hurt, anxiety, anguish, and shame,
Emotions that have been inside you
Since you were a child,
When you were so alone
That you swore you’d never feel them again,
So you turned into another person,
And left your true self behind,
Because you knew how precious it was,
Too precious for the calloused hearts of your parents,
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So you performed and pretended to get along,
As a false version of yourself,
Adopting distorted values that would
Help you hide your soul,
Notions like sacrifice and altruism,
Happiness and caretaking,
Letting things go before you feel them through,
Believing or disbelieving in the God the soul just feels,
And playing victim to reality
Such that you would expect a
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No one is responsible for your emotional safety
Unless you are a child,
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You have a contribution to
Every experience you don’t like,
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This reality may offend you,
And that is your opportunity to get curious
About how deep your wounds go
Such that the false version of you
Needs someone or something else
To change for you to be okay,
Because that’s what you were forced to do as a child,
But mature adults let reality change them,
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Life is chaotic, impermanent, and experimental,
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You cannot know anything absolutely
And only your fear and pain would cause you to try,
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You are responsible for the contents
Of your unconscious,
And the worst experiences of your life
Are the best ways to learn about it,
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You don’t need a trigger warning,
Because triggers aren’t bad,
What they trigger isn’t bad,
Why they trigger it isn’t bad,
When they trigger it
Is the exact right time,
And where
Is the exact right place,
Your triggers are gifts to help you reclaim your soul,
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Now why would you need to be warned about that?