a Japanese word
tattooed across
my thumping heart
honne, it speaks
meaning of one's
true feelings,
that's the way
I should be
I promised when
I was young,
to all those I love
to all those trembling hands
I wish to hold still and hold
when the darkness
presses without permission,
I don't want to be
a master puppeteer
no, I just want to
genuinely be
what my inner desires
resembles to be