There is fire in your Heart
Even though you keep quiet
Or laugh loud to play your part
When awkwardness is at its height

It is a warm quiet resolute fire
Burning subterraneously
A nocturnal town-crier
Subtle intensity

Everybody in your vicinity
Is warmed by you
Without understanding completely
Why they like being with you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river