It‘s a strange feeling when you stop caring; You look for it inside you, it’s no longer there. The heart grows cold and stops sharing, And lies overtake the spirit of truth or dare. It’s a strange feeling when you stop fearing To lose what you love the most to have near. What has freed you leaves you feeling empty; The answers are few, the questions are plenty; But the urge to know has suddenly died recently. - Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
DISTANZ IST NÄHER
Distanz ist näher als Nähe.
Entferne sie nicht, sonst wehe.
Raum genug um besser zu sehen,
Raum genug um besser zu gehen,
Distanz ist ein tiefes Geschehen.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
LOVE HARDER, LOVE INTENSELY
When we have been hurt once, we make the mistake of shielding our hearts from loving again or loving too deeply the next time. This is very wrong. This is allowing the darkness to win against the light. The right thing to do is the opposite. Love hard, hurt hard, stand up, heal, fall hard again and love even harder. Next time, love HARDER. The only thing that can heal a broken heart is complete re-immersion into the intensity of love. Only intense love can dispel the spectre of the fear of love. Because it touches the core of the spirit and makes it know it is alive.
The nature of intense love is that, if your heart gets broken, it takes a long time to fall out of it and to heal, once you have given your heart and your trust and your openness to someone. Depth does not permit superficiality. Intensity does not permit an easy withdrawal or a quick transition. If you love hard, moving on will be very hard. But once you’re gone, looking back or coming back will also be very hard, because you are also going to fall hard into the next one. True love is intense, because only intensity is satisfying and fulfilling. Intensity is an addictive drug.
And nothing is more intense than the intimacy of shared truthfulness. Not even sex is an intimate as the sharing of truth and trust. A person who cannot share their truth with you, or who you cannot share your truth with, is inwardly distant from you. You will never have an intense intimate relationship with this person. The bond with this person will not be deep and satisfying. The pains will not be deep, neither will the joys. Moving on for or from such a person will be quick and easy. But your emptiness will not be filled.
If you want your emptiness to be filled, you have to have the courage to open your heart and fall fully, give yourself fully, share deeply and honestly, and love hard. Love HARDER. It comes with the risk and certainty of pain, but also of the deepest joy and satisfaction possible. And, above all, it is one of the only few things on earth that can really change a human spirit and help it to mature and develop. Because it touches your core and makes you even more alive.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
IT IS WHY WE LIVE
It doesn’t matter who broke your heart Or how badly they broke it. It doesn’t matter how much it hurt. When the new one comes, Love again. And love HARDER. Once you set off, don’t look back. Pain is not and is never our master. Joy and love lie always ahead - Fall forward. It is why we live With the fullness of our heart always to give. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
NOTIZ AN MICH SELBST
Du bist heute nicht gestern mutig nicht schüchtern bereit zum Reden nicht zum Lästern klare Worte kein Flüstern wartend auf Neustart wartend auf Ostern. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
MUSIC OF THE HEART
My days feel like years My years feel like days My smile hurts like tears My tears smoothen my ways My hopes are also my fears My fears are my other Ayes My inner eyes are my ears They hear every music that plays. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
BEIDES
Gespräche - Kühlende Tröpfchen Auf heißen Stein - Heilendes schöpfen. Schweigen - Kühlendes Tröpfchen Auf heißen Stein - Heilendes schöpfen. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
WHAT HUMANS CAN DO
A.I. can only do
What has been done before
Only humans
Can do truly new things
Spirit, give me more –
New hearts beat on different strings.
Spirit, give me those things
That only human spirits can do.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
LOVE HARD
LOVE HARD
HURT HARD
HEAL HARD
GROW HARD
LOVE HARDER
Che Chidi Chukwumerije ❤️😊
FLÜCHTIGE GEFÜHLE
Ganz schnell
kam und ging das Gefühl
Dunkel-hell
Welcher Gedanke war hier im Spiel?
Diese Dinge
die wir in uns beobachten
ohne sie einordnen zu können –
es kommt immer anders als wir dachten.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 