Author: Che

THE FINAL IMPRESSION

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The last picture we have of a person determines what we continue to think about that person; and yet that person might have changed the very next day after the last time we saw them.

But for years and decades after that we continue to hold this picture and this opinion about the person.

And should our paths ever cross again we usually begin to relate again to that person and that opinion and that picture and that character that was the one we last experienced and remember.

So, we end up talking to a ghost and missing the real person right there in front of us.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

ZUG NACH VORN

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Grauer Morgen
Trauer, Sorgen,
ziehen ihre Flusswege
schwermütig und träge
Die Brücke ist aber breiter
Das Herz fährt weiter
hoffnungsvoll und heiter.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

ONCE YOU TASTE TRUE LOVE

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Once you taste true love
Lust becomes a mechanical chore
Pleasure is no longer enough
You want something more.

You learn to recognise the grain
And separate it from the chaff -
You want to feel that joy again
You want your heart to laugh.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

SCHMERZ UND VERZEIHUNG

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Verzeihung -
Ich bitte nicht um sie
Ich biete sie Dir an
Verzeihung. Rache nie.
Auch wenn es weh tut
Vor allem wenn es weh tut
Denn wenn es nicht weh tut
Braucht es keine Verzeihung
Ist es keine Verzeihung
Fühlt es sich leer an.
Verzeihung
Weil es weh tut
Verzeihung.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

FREE

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Free me
Let me
Be me
Let me
Be free
Set me
Free.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

LICHTGEDICHT

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Das Licht
hat Gewicht
ist schlicht
ist Gericht
ist ein Gedicht.

Es ist Einsicht
die einbricht.

Hab in der Nacht
nachgedacht
und sah das Licht.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

Die Freude an Arbeit

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Seit einiger Zeit fällt mir mehr und mehr auf, dass viele Menschen eine enorme Energie darauf verwenden, sich vor jeglicher Arbeit zu drücken. Und …

Die Freude an Arbeit

LOOKING EVERYWHERE

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When people find what they are looking for
They find it’s not what they are looking for
And then they begin to look for
Clarity about what they are really looking for.

And they look for clarity everywhere,
In everything, in every way, they dare
Every adventure, no matter how rare,
Every experience that might get them there.

Because the possession of clarity
About one’s path and identity
Is the actual meaning of true life-quality
And the paramount shaper of reality.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

FANG AN

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Anfang ist Ende -
Mitte ist Wendepunkt -
Beendet weil es begann -
Verändert während es zerrann -
Was Du nicht beenden willst
fang nicht erst an -
Aber was Du nicht bereuen willst
lass nicht ungetan.
Fang einfach an mit Deinem Schicksal;
Alles andere ist eh und wirklich egal.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

THE EARTH SCHOOL

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There are some people
Who just don’t deserve good people,
Yet good people will be meet them
Because they’re a part of the system;
There’s nothing you can do about that.

As long as you walk this earth,
You deserve every experience you get;
You signed up for it before birth
And now you have to run the gauntlet -
There’s nothing you can do about that.

Welcome to the school of maturing,
Of pain, temptation, of debt incurring -
But you CAN conquer after long enduring.
Now I don’t know if you find this reassuring,
But there’s nothing you can do about that.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river