Buses groan. Dogs bark. Someone starts frying onions. The sun rises over rooftops that once looked like proof of everything you lacked.
Now they look like the beginning of everything you built.
They humiliated you for selling bread in the street.
They called you hungry like hunger was a crime.
They threw your basket on the floor and expected you to kneel.
But they forgot something.
Bread rises.
So did you.