Sages Dressed as Fools

from Meditations in an Emergency by Liz McBride!

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Dear water, go by me before you freeze
We beat dead horses with our words, and in summer time,
we find we leave early like the winter sun…

Dear Father, your spirit is pouring on me
In my mind’s eye, this is a regular street scene, and if I should die, I might end up really going on just like your son…

Carried away by his own words,
he’s finally unafraid to love this girl, and if she’d just try
to work up the courage to love him too…

And if she’d just say:
-words that sound like others
-stop looking under covers
-going through the pain we carry, realizing that maybe we're just sages dressedas fools, for believing in love like we do…

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from Meditations in an Emergency, released December 12, 2014

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Liz McBride! Youngstown, Ohio

"There are nightingales and nightingales. This one was a diva, a Callas. One would readily have disbursed a small fortune to hear her sing in a concert hall. Its tone, of an ineffable sweetness... Under a rich, deep, nocturnal sky, they would stand for an hour, hushed and spellbound, listening to the nightingale." ... more

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