Hotelzimmer haben etwas Fremdes und Vertrautes zugleich. Du bist weit weg von Dir und bist in Dir ein Besucher in einem Friedensreich. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
GORDIAN KNOT
I can’t find the words I can’t find the right chords Our messages have become swords Cutting deeper than we thought. Will they cut through our Gordian knot And free us? Or not? But free us from what? From ourselves or from our fears? My anxiety level and my tears Will colour the remainder of my years. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
NACHTLIEBEN
Die Nacht hat leise nachgedacht und laut meines Herzens Ohren sehr leise auch geliebt und gelacht und ein Liebesgedicht wurde geboren. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
TIME TO PART
It’s time to part With peace of heart, Reconciliation the chart - Lord, how great Thou art. Finally letting go Of pain and sorrow, Of wanting and woe - You reap what you sow. You forgive, forget and grow. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
LOVERS AND TRUTH
Lovers, you have to tell yourselves the truth. The only thing that may unite or separate you is the truth. The only thing that should keep you together or tear you apart is the truth. The only thing that can really merge or divide you is the truth. Truth is a function of love and love is a function of truth. You cannot separate them one from the other because the aim of love is to give you freedom but, as we know, only the truth can set you free.
If you love something, set it free – if it comes back to you, it is yours; if it doesn’t, it never was. If you love something, tell it the truth – if it stays with you, it is yours; if it doesn’t, it never was. If something claims that it loves you, ask it the truth – if it tells you the truth, it is yours; if it doesn’t, it never was. Truth is the ultimate determiner of love.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
IST-ERFÜLLUNG
Jede Sekunde meines Lebens
ist Erfüllung
Jeder Schlag meines Herzbebens
ist Erfüllung
Jeder Schritt meines Strebens
ist Erfüllung
Jeder Faden meines Webens
ist Erfüllung.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
ADJUSTING
You overcome the pain By becoming one with it. You lighten the rain By learning to dance in it. You conquer rejection By accepting it. You unburden affection By confessing it. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
REINKARNIERENDE ÄGYPTER
Die Menschen hier sind mir ähnlich Als waren wir einst zusammen in einem Herz Bevor die Haut uns trennten Und fremde Sprachen. Und Fluss und Schmerz. Wie viele Leben leben wir Bevor wir anfangen, wirklich zu leben? Wie viele Tode sterben wir Bevor wir uns dem Gotteswillen geben Und uns gegenseitig vergeben Oder für immer aufhören zu leben? Wie tief muss eine Wunde sein Bevor sie geheilt werden kann? Wie tief müssen wir verbunden sein Bevor jeder dem anderen vergeben kann? Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM
God is teaching me to not be emotionally dependent on any human being on Earth; to have nobody of whom I think or feel that I cannot live without this person. It’s a painful process, but to everybody who has rejected or is rejecting me, I say Thank you. Whatever your intention was, God has made something greater out of it.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
NEVER STOP
Don’t be ashamed and don’t be afraid
To follow your heart and go for your love;
Rejection can shatter the plans best laid –
The important thing is that your heart did move
And you moved outwardly along with this inner motion,
For movement is the spirit’s most important need –
It will climb every mountain and cross every ocean
Until it has itself from all its shackles freed.
The soul will always love something or someone,
And this love will make it laugh and make it bleed
And make it outgrow itself and never be done,
Following the path Home wherever it may lead.
Some chapters end in joy, and some end in sorrow,
But neither of these can hold the spirit down forever –
An inner restlessness will grip it again tomorrow;
Until it gets back Home, it will never stop. Never.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
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