Dear Cairo

we just met... but

you disarm me

you show me every

piece of yourself

laid painfully bare

along your streets

beautiful and broken

side by side

you push me

to be a version

of myself I didn’t

know existed

a me who smiles

in the face of death

and inhales every

droplet of joy

i breathe from

your heavy air

a me who desperately

wants to live

a life filled with

all that I am

laid open and bare

in the streets

beautiful and broken

side by side

all creating one

glorious mosaic