The Staircase

But This Is Not about Me

*Trigger Warning* Themes of mental health and abuse

Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash

Climbing, climbing, that was what you set out to do, wasn’t it?
You were born a climber. Climbing out of your crib, Climbing
up the dusty furniture, our mother’s skirt-clad legs, gauzy curtains,
uncertain kitchen cabinets.