permission to shine

You can enter the bathroom while I’m showering.

You can leave the door wide open.

You can screech for no apparent reason to attract attention to the bathroom with the door open where I’m showering.

Even when my Mum is visiting.

You can do all of this. I can take it.

But when you scrunch the bath mat up a little bit so it’s not nice and flat and lovely and dry for when I get out of the shower... that’s when you devalue me. As a human.

This is me. I am human.

Oh – hi Mum.