An experiment with experiential learning
Brought me back
Seven years had passed
Since I called Tokyo my home
Like an ex-lover
Familiar but different
A flood of memories
In the streets, big and small
The love and the hate I once felt
for the city, for the culture and for a boy
Fused, buried
A different self, many life times ago
Filled with paradoxes
Racism to extremes
Celebritised or despised
Aliens swimming in a foreign sea
of manicured faces
Designer top to toe
Toy cars, play trucks
Uniforms with helmets
Hostesses and serial killers
Cold beer and hot rice wine
Pachinko, yakuza
Ninjas, samurai
Loud lights scream
A subtle honour
In a fantasy land
called Japan.
