“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.
