Imagine if there were
an invisible war taking place
In the world of thoughts,
A carnage whose only trace
Is this disharmony on Earth
That evades all correction
Whose roots seem omnipresent
And elude detection.

A parallel world, a prototype,
The way we think, our inner life,
Create the future we must face,
our world of woe and strife.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river