Herberts

“No Fair! 

You changed 

The Outcome 

by measuring it!”

“When I was 16 

I left Home in search 

of My Misfortune and 

quickly found it. 

It was in Bermondsey. 

There’s enough misery in 

South London for everyone, 

it wasn’t as cool then as it’s 

meant to be now. 

There I holed up with 

some Lost Boys, 

two years older and 

a great deal wiser, 

and in My Mind

I made them Legends.

When I look back now at 

these 18-year-old lads 

I see that They were Herberts

but I needed them to 

Be Cool, so Cool

is What I Saw.”

— Brand.

“Perhaps Young Men like Me go awry 

because nobody can hold them. 

I don’t mean embrace, I mean 

in a parental sense, 

like parentheses ‘bracket’ them, 

To Stand as A Dam either side 

of the wayward lash and

unmovingly emit Care. 

The only Authority I ever 

knew was negative. 

Either inefficient or corrupt --

This is the consequence of 

Living with false ideals 

in a materialistic society. 

The Authority that I Give to Jimmy is Sacred, 

I know he is flawed but I am not consulting 

with the flawed part of him —

I am consulting with the part of him that is willing 

in spite of his own numerous obligations, Work,

 and Family to provide Loving Counsel for free. 

I Believe this relationship becomes 

a conduit for Truth, Divine Truth. 

That needn’t mean it’s all 

chocolates and roses. 

There’s a fair amount 

of ‘Suck it Up’ and 

‘Face Your Fear’, 

but it IS Truth. 

Perhaps we can take Truth 

to mean The Timeless, 

The Universal. 

Things that will not 

erode and fade, qualities 

I need to Live the Life 

I have moved into —

How Does someone who has never 

been A Father become one? 

How Do any of Us 

progress beyond 

our Temporary Limits? 

The Potential-Person 

We can Become •hums• 

in an invisible grid 

Within and Without Us. 

A Genius may actuate

by Intuition but 

All of Us need Heroes, 

Role-Models and Mentors, that 

We may See What is Possible, 

Living Mandalas 

to lock onto as We Inhale 

and Expand into new states.