In Plain Sight / Merlionsman Coaching & Consulting General Order 2

Poem in English

If the Republic of Singapore can already have a lot going on with whether in 1987 torture was actually practised —

I would be very, very circumspect about what else exists

at the dark heart of what really goes on every day, everywhere. The red mist

that does not come from nowhere. It is from such mind-shattering, catastrophic despair

that we fail all our students, every day, when we do not listen to them and their stories told sideways. The truth hidden in the air.

Merlionsman Coaching and Consulting General Order 2 is simple:

It is that a person's humanity, no matter what fucked up things they have done, is always, and always, and always there.

And it is also on each and every one of us, no matter who we are, to focus first and foremost on ourselves, and lay all of our secrets bare.

Never mind about punishing those who hurt us.
Forgiveness
was not left solely to Buddha, or Muhammad, or my pattern-friend Jesus:

all of us, every last one,
can be the radical Dragons, Dreamtigers and Merlionsmen we know we need to be,
if only we so dare

to love ourselves.
This is not Starfleet.
This is something better:
this is what it really means to be free.

This is you and I holding ourselves to the best account possible:
to what we know the universe demands of each of us,
and ultimately of reality.

So drop by the Dreamtiger's psychoemotional treehouse.
Be fearless. Be vulnerable.
Tell me a story.

Show me who you really are
when we don't care so much, and rightfully so,
about face, and image, and
visibility.