TRUST, BROKEN

Trust, broken.
Thoughts, woken.
Hurt, spoken.
Touch, token.

Unpreparable.
It comes from the one you don’t expect.
Unrepairable.
You’ll never again be able to not suspect.

Healing is an intellectual token
Once the trust has been broken.
Only the spirit can find a new rhyme
In its own way, in its own time.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

EIN DEUTSCHLAND

🇩🇪Eine Leinwand
Eine werktätige Hand
Ein buntes Land
Ein geistiges Band
Ein menschlicher Rand
Ein Mittelstand
Ein Zukunftspfand
Ein Herzbrand
Ein Deutschland.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

COMPLICATED

They will hurt you
It’s what they do
When they feel attracted to you.

Do they love you? It’s hard to say.
Do they hate you? It’s hard to say.
What they feel is hard to explain
But it will cause you pain.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

ALT UND NEU

Wir entdecken uns neu
finden die selben alten Persönlichkeiten
in neuen Farben und Befindlichkeiten
und bleiben uns dennoch treu.

Wir sind deutsch wie früher
und deutsch wie noch nie vorher.
Entschlossener. Wissender. Treuer.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

YOUR LADDER OF POEMS

A poem at a time
Gradually I climb
Out of my well of wishes
Out of my well of clichés
Out of my well of unbeing
Into my wellbeing.

Don’t let the machine write your mind
Think for yourself or you’ll grow blind
What you seek is what you’ll find -
Moving on, don’t leave your true self behind.

AI might be the future’s tool -
But stay human and don’t be its fool.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

KLEIN

Dienen. Mach Dich klein.
Kleinsein ist drin sein.
Dienen macht Dich groß -
Nimm dies als Denkanstoß
und laß los.
Es bringt nichts, wichtig sein.
Wichtiger wirst Du, bist Du klein.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

JUMP!

JUMP!
From my 2016 album „First Nature“.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Can A Person Have Two Hearts? (TALK WITH CHE: Arno Börtzler)

Two hearts in one chest. What did Goethe really mean? One of the topics Arno Börtzler spoke with me about in this episode of “Talk With Che”. Watch the full length video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hs_HIpnfrg4?si=_dQtOZAgXvOP8KLw
Guest: Arno Börtzler
Host: Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Videography: Martins Idahosa (dcv_studios)

#goethe #faust #börtzler #drjekyllandmrhyde #doublepersonality #twonations #arnobörtzler #talkwithche #johannwolfgangvongoethe #talkshow #frankfurt #zweiherzenineinemkörper

Can Modern Cities Be Made To Feel Like Villages? (TALK WITH CHE: Arno Börtzler)

Can modern societies still have the communal feeling of villages?
Watch my full interview with Arno Börtzler in „Talk With Che“ in YouTube: https://youtu.be/hs_HIpnfrg4?si=V4sWv46iATCZPxck

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER

For whom shall I write now?
For whom shall I fight now?
Who shall shine the light now
That illuminates my heart?

Lovers don’t turn into friends,
They turn into strangers.
Life the gardener tends
Both safeties and dangers.
But when November ends,
December births mangers
And shines new light to my heart.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river