What a difference a year can make -
Even half-a-year of experiencing can remake
Mind and soul, body and spirit completely.

How quickly the present becomes the past,
It never ceases to amaze me.
I look at pictures from just a week ago last
And it’s a different life already,
A different time, a different world, a different me,
A different you - my view has changed completely.

Everything always Happens quickly,
You take it immediately or you lose it swiftly.
When the seasons change, they change completely.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river