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Posters grace the walls

Splashes of colour to entrall

With sunset seascape

Next to music idols

Stuck on glitter like pixie dust

Drifting about oaken cupboard

Around posters of Ganesha

Pre-Raphaelite angel tooting a horn

Flanked by movie posters

Anime, Scifi, and cartoon duck

Figurines aplenty

Grail, Buddha, and Halloween hat

Magic condenses here

Beneath push button lights

Infusing two clocks

Pooling around each display

But time here is just a notion

A fancy of invention

Neon and liquid crystal

Parade garbled digits

Lines of magnetic force

Balance the mix

Turning the room

Into the centre of the world

Right in its core

Where the Earth Spirit sleeps

Lost to a dream

Adrift in this room

Nothing is real

Gingerbread field

I wish I had a cultured persona

Sagacious and sturdy

Unmoved by small slights

Yet cute as my avatar

Bubbly and fun

Yet I know that's just a facade

I'm character acting

The only real value is to be true

To shed my disguise

So I'm meaningful to you

That means to expose my little flaws

My strange quirks of speech

The insecure way I sometimes respond

No more protective reservation

A real person in the raw

Upfront and honest

Unafraid and exposed

Social mask cast aside

Unpolished and imperfect

Not hiding behind my complex diction

And imaginative fiction

I wrote this to be

At last I am free

No need to edit out unembelished lines

No need for beauty in rhyme

Or lyrical cadence and timing

Just a flow of what I am

Nothing hidden or obscured

I will not even edit the preceding

I'll just let it all rest

In this unpolished state

I need to shed the gloss

And present

Just me

You practise the katanas

Sweat shaking off with impact

Athletic, built like a dancer

You glisten in mock combat

Dare I tell you how alluring you are

As I duck each throwing star

You are quintessentially Japanese

As I am occidental

Yet we connect at the level

Of our disciplinary art

You play the silent hostess

In the intercontinental club

Filled with triads and yakuza

With lowered eyelashes

Alert to the threat

From the one who loves you

The one who wants to take you away

From all this subterfuge

And dark transactions

I don't care you are lady ninja

About to assault some kingpin

Enough is enough

I honed my skill to exceed yours

I am disarming in a blur

Detonating into a spectre

I stop your knives

To deliver you to the safety

Of domestic ease

Nerveless to the ever present danger

Of living on the edge

Every moment I'm with you

Your presence a Shinto spirit

Your feet and hands a gale

My Kempo femme fatale