Enter with your left foot, then your right.
The bathroom is the place where evil spirits linger.
Recite the dua for protection.
Sit on the cold tiles, just mopped, and cry.
The bathroom is the place where evil spirits linger.
Better than the evil outside.
Sit on the cold tiles, just mopped and cry.
Aunties that pinched your belly, still laughing.
Better than the evil outside.
Make sure the door is locked.
Aunties that pinched your bell, still laughing.
Don't sob too loud, there might be ears at the door.
Make sure the door is locked.
They always do this, their progress review.
Don’t sob too loud there might be ears at the door.
Your growing body is their catnip.
They always do this, their progress review.
Measure the expanse of your hips.
Your growing body is their catnip.
Poke the fat so it wobbles.
Measure the expanse of your hips.
They tell you that you need to eat less.
Poke the fat so it wobbles.
They tell you that you need to exercise more.
They tell you that you need to eat less.
But you couldn’t feel smaller than you do then.
They tell you that you need to exercise more.
But you couldn’t feel faster than you do then.
But you couldn’t feel smaller than you do then.
When you are belittled and bullied.
But you couldn’t feel faster than you do then.
When you run from the room.
When you are belittled and bullied.
Recite the dua for protection.
When you run from the room
Enter with your right foot, then your left.
About the Creator
RANIA OMAR
Rania is an emerging writer and artist from Western Sydney. Her writing often reflects on her lived experiences of mental illness, domestic violence and disability as well as culture and social commentary.
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