Tokyo

A city of many many millions A throbbing city with A thousand dreams And a painful past Earthquakes, fires, killings, Allied bombings, palace intrigues Power struggles and Religious persecutions Never douse its forward Matching spirit to the fore Of technology, fashion, ideas, Knowledge and world peace A city that has astounded the World with its mindboggling transformation From feudal backgrounds to Modernity and world's top in less Than a century never Fails to fascinate a foreigner With its contrasts between The old and the new The Occident and the Orient A geisha walking under her colourful parasol in the midst Of modern skyscrapers An emotion charged enka played Amid catchy modern hits Old Chinese inspired temples, jinjas And pagodas with up-to-date facilities The only city in the world That forever renounces war In its constitution This is Tokyo, a city fortunate Enough to have Van Goh's Sunflower Nobel-prize writer Yasunari Kawabata Oscar Samurai celluloid creator Akira Kurosawa The blessings of Sungoddess Amaterasu And auspices of the world's oldest monarchy The next great earthquake Predicted to strike anytime Doesnt seem to dim the enthusiasm of Its populace who seek out every Inch of land here for More development and......fun!