2014

P.O.V.ERTY

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Sand for breakfast
Tasted no better than shit
I don’t beg for alms anymore
I just snatch it

My mother’s tears
Son I did not bring you up to be a thief
Mom you didn’t raise me to suffer in poverty, did you?
I just want some relief.

Sometimes they look out of their cars
Our eyes meet
I wonder if they ever wonder
If I know the taste of meat.

If I were in their shoes
Would I mean nothing to me
If driving by I saw me chained by poverty
In a system that benefits only me.

– CHE CHIDI CHUKWUMERIJE.

YOUR FORGIVENESS SMILE

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That moment
When the bitterness
Isn’t bitter enough to sour
Your forgiveness smile

And yet sad is the smile.

How friends fall away like unmasked leaves
Unable to bear the weight of trust
In all its lightness
Treachery by politeness.

– CHE CHIDI CHUKWUMERIJE.

EVENING WALK

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Kidnapped
Is there still hope for me?
The sun sets sadly as slowly as he can
By the last light of day
Find my way

Did you see the baby that was stolen?
Did you see the boy that was broken?
However hard you look, you will see
No resemblance at all between them and
The man now woken, now walking.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

ERDENHERZ

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Planet Erde
Planet Erbe

Planet Herd
Planet Herb

Planet schwinde
Und das, geschwind

Fahre linde
Menschenblind.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

TRANSITION

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What is adulthood
But childhood lost?

Shopping for arrival
But at what cost?

Goodbye because I want
Welcome because I must

Morning to ashes
Laughter to dust.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

NEW ROADS

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How maddening it must be
Upon reincarnation to see
The fullness of your memory
In all its grime and glory –

Take it away, take it away
I don’t want to know today
The sadness and joy of yesterday
With my heart let me find my way

I fell in love, in love anew
With dawn and dusk, with dream and dew
With life and love, through vice and virtue
Another me, another you.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

TAKE HER ACHING

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I met a girl in the dark
I’m hurt, she said, hurt me
You’re singing in riddles, I said

She shook her head intensely
Her eyes were full of things she could not say
I’m in pain, she moaned, give me more

Crooked words lead straight to truth
Those who love each other hurt each other
And die wanting each other, immortally.

– CHE CHIDI CHUKWUMERIJE.

REMINISCING HOME

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I’m feeling home
I’m home in quiet hut
They stand in circle
They smile in tongues of depth
Feeling home

Reminisce
Over
Lost friends
Friendships
Dreams, memories
A love lost and forever
Reminisce.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

SHADOWY PEACE

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You cannot bring peace
To strangers
Friend, stop running
From your shadow
It is you

You, you
It is you

Bring peace to yourself
Let there be peace
Upon you, within you

The strangers that pass by
Will be grateful to you
And never forget you
Peaceful you.

– CHE CHIDI CHUKWUMERIJE.

GLÜCK UND SEGEN

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Wagen
Auf all deinen Wegen
Dich wagen
Das ist dein Wagen

Kein Volkswagen
Auf Massenwegen
Nein. Dein eigenes Wagen
Dich regen persönlich

Dich bewegen
Bewegt mich, bewegt uns
Traue dich, zu wagen
Bring mich weg.

Bringe mich, aus dem Gleichgewicht
, ans Licht, das ausbricht
Schicht für Schicht
Ich werde dich nie vergessen.

– CHE CHIDI CHUKWUMERIJE.