LIEBE MACHT DICHTER

Alkohol macht dicht
Liebe macht Dichter
Dichtung bringt Licht
heller als irdische Lichter.
Ist Dein Innenleben ein Gericht,
teils komplex, teils schlicht?
Dichten ist Schlichter.
Lies einfach ein Gedicht,
der geheime Licht-Trichter.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

FIGHT FOR IT

You have to fight to be free -
True freedom, inner freedom -
Fight your fears and anxiety,
The chains of your inner fiefdom;
Fight your propensity and proclivity
For weakening pleasure ;
Fight your despondency
And fight your insecurity
With courageous Hope in equal measure.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

GOOD FOR THE SAKE OF YOU

When you do the right thing, you’re doing it for yourself. Always remember that. And let that be your motivation, your reward and your joy. Because you have to live with yourself always, and there is nothing worse than living with someone you don’t respect, someone you don’t trust, someone you don’t like and someone who is not in sync with you. And that person is yourself.

You are your own home, your own paradise or hell, and your own purgatory too in whom you have to recognise, discipline, purify and transform yourself. You are all you have. Handle yourself with care and with thought, with integrity. Any lesson you would like to teach your children one day, or wish you taught your children once upon a time, teach that lesson to yourself today. Lessons of character. Regard yourself as your first and last and only true child. If that child dies, you die.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

LIEBE DICHTET

Mein Herz hört nicht auf zu bluten -
und das fühlt sich so schön an -
und meinen Kopf mit Gedanken zu fluten;
oh Liebe, was o was hab ich Dir angetan?
Du suchst mich wuchtig und gewaltig heim,
zerreißt und zerfleischst mein Herz leise…
erstickst jede versuchte Flucht im Keim,
behältst mich als Dichter auf dieser Weise.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

PARTY TIME

Close the chapter and move on -
Life is a party. Put your dancing shoes on
And just groove on
Be the life of your own party.
Many invited guests will fail to show up
Don’t worry, the show will still go on
Many uninvited guests will crash the party
And light the show up
Your life is your party and it’s never done Dance on, move on, groove on.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

NEU WIE ALT

Du bist neu wie die alte Sonne
die täglich neu ist und neu macht
Du bist neu wie kindliche Wonne
die wie alte Seele in jungem Körper lacht
Du bist jung im Kopf und alt im Geist
Ich kenn Dich und kenn Dich nicht irgendwie
Du bist jung doch Deine Reife beweist
In jedem kindlichem Herz wohnt ein Genie.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

WHAT’S REALLY IMPORTANT?

The concept of “importance”, the way it exists for us, does not exist to God. What is important to God is the purity, health and harmony of His Creation, and the proper development of all its inhabitants in accordance with His Will.

A soul who, in our opinion, was very “important” in one earthlife can incarnate as a complete “nobody” – again judged by our concept – in the next. Obscurity and fame are both irrelevant to God, just as material wealth and material poverty play no role in determining our true value in God’s Creation. What we consider to be “good health” and “ill health” are but temporary conditions of our physical shells. Of more importance to the Divine Will is the condition of our spirit.

Paradise is a place of good spirits, and this is what is still lacking on earth. That is why “Thy Kingdom come” remains still just a prayer and not yet a reality, because His Will is yet to be done by us on earth as It is in Heaven. This is why we do not yet have Paradise here on earth too.

Nothing else is important. Not political power or military might; not wealth, fame or status; and not many other things and people to which we attach importance. The only thing that matters is the kind of soul you are, not just deep inside your heart, but also in your manifest action. Irrespective of whether you be the most unknown and obscure person in some invisible place somewhere, or whether you be the most visible and powerful person on earth.

It sounds strange, and it is hard to grasp, but the truth is that on that plane where eternal life plays itself out, the only thing that matters is character – true spiritual character. The good man and the good woman – the truly good people – are the ones who become the kings and queens. A completely different scenario from what obtains on Earth, on this temporary theatre where our physical life takes place.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

PATTERNS

One thing about life
Patterns repeat themselves
Next thing about life
Patterns repeat themselves
Another thing about life
Patterns repeat themselves

Until you break them.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

MITTEN IM GESPRÄCH

Irgendwann schweigen wir
und durch unser Schweigen zeigen wir
das Vorhandensein von Welten tief in uns
jenseits der gekonntesten Redekunst.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

TAKE IT EASY

Possibilities of joy
are ruined by probabilities of sorrow
Today will annoy
the hell out of the peace of tomorrow

Stay simple
Don’t believe the hype
A tiny ripple
won’t burst your pipe
if you don’t turn it into a big wave -
Worry is deceptive, don’t be its slave.

Be simple in expectation
Be simple in perception
Be simple in deliberation
Be simple in expression.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river