<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">The Sole Condition</span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class=""> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">If for a moment your world became mine</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">Would I understand or my mind explode?</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">As the mystics tell when near God’s design</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">Sheer overwhelm makes the senses implode.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">You cover your ears to ease the torment</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">You crouch on the ground monosyllabic;</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">Misaligned your audio instrument</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">Athletic gifts reduced to beast’s havoc.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">O would Zeus send Hermes to mediate</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">And Athena tell brother Ares to leave</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">So our home’s peace become inviolate,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">And joyful learning your space to achieve:</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">For this be all that matter and to strive</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class="">For the sole condition that your soul thrive.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.97333335876465px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Brian McSweeney</span></div></div></body></html>