ONE FRIEND

If a true friend is gold, are they poor that have no friends? Or rich by default, for peace of mind is also the lot of the lonely who is spared the irony of the laughter and companionship of false friends?

How often have we met with a friend and parted from a stranger a short while later? In these days of sad revolutions and mixed allegations, of spying and cyber double lives, of migration without integration, of hospitality without sincerity, of religious justice without religious love, of racial regrouping, gender re-evaluation, and social hardening, and of eternal unchanging vices; if you have one friend, just one friend, one true friend, then you have something more precious than silver and gold.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

FLÜCHTIGE EMPFINDUNGEN

Früh am morgen
Während sich nächtliche Besucher
Wie Fangnetz vom Traum
Auf dem Heimweg machen
Der Baum reckt sich, schüttelt
Den Kopf, atmet ein und aus den Wind
Wer bist Du, Bewegung tausend Gedanken
Rollend schweigsam ins Licht
Das mir aufdämmern möchte?

Es ist ein Fehler, den ich
Oft wiederhole. Ich drehte mich
Um, um nach zu sehen
Und verlor den Faden.
Kluge Köpfe werden mir nun
Den ganzen Tag über Ersatzgedanken
Großzügig und ungebeten liefern
Aber weise Menschen werden mit mir schweigen
Und den Schatz in unserem Geist aufbewahren.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

DIE LICHTSEHNSUCHT

Der Erdenkörper ist ein Betäubungsmittel
Wir sind blind und taub
Und zum Teil auch gelähmt

Das weitaus größere Teil von dem
Was es wahrzunehmen gibt
Bemerken wir nicht

Wir sehen es nicht, hören es nicht, fühlen es nicht
Wohl weil wir fleischlich eingemummt sind

Allein die Lichtsehnsucht kann uns befreien
Von aller Stofflichkeit.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

NOT MY EARTHLY, BUT MY HEAVENLY FATHER

What binds me to my earthly father is
Love, duty, gratitude, respect and admiration.

What binds me to my Heavenly Father is
Eternal life,
Eternal gratitude,
Eternal purpose,
Eternal faithfulness here and everywhere,
Now and forever.

Not my earthly – but my Heavenly – Father.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

BUT TWICE IS NOT ENOUGH

The heart rejoices twice:
When it laughs and when it weeps

The heart flames twice
When it loves and when it hates

The heart greets twice
When it meets and when it parts

The heart is birthed twice:
When it’s born and when it passes on.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

IF THE PEOPLE CHANGETH NOT

If you wake up one morning
And hear a bird out there
Sing a song you’ve heard before
But can’t remember where
Close your eyes and remember
The dream you’re waking from
And you’ll find yourself again
In a beautiful kingdom

Where the things you really feel
Are the things that you say
And it’s no big deal
To stand by what you say
And the people passing by
Are exactly as they seem
And they lift their country high
‘Cause they’re true to its dream

Then you wake up from the dream
And go into your world
And meet the opposite
Of what your dreams hold
Join the people, form a line
Queue up in the sun
Cast your votes for someone who
You hope has the wisdom

That the things she really felt
Are the things that she said
And the promises he spelt
Are the path that he’ll tread
And that when she passes by
She will be what she seems
And he’ll lift the country high
By working out her dreams

But the years they slowly pass
And the things hardly change
Sadly sadly ’cause the people
Are all still the same
Truth be told it makes no difference
Which of them the leader be
If the people changeth not
Well neither will their country

So pick your brooms and sweep your streets
And go to work on time
You may laugh at my simple words
But you’d be very surprised
That it’s just such little things
That have tied us down
Oh my people we’re the ones
Who give a face to our town

So the things we really feel
Are the things that we should say
It should be no big deal
To stand by what we say
And the people passing by
Should be just what they seem
And we lift our country high
‘Cause we work out our dream.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

TRUE ADULT

Heed the Voice within your heart
The Inner Voice in you
Hear your role and play your part
That’s the Golden Rule

Though it sounds childlike and slow
And full of oldschool rules
It’s the only way to know
The true adult in you.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

EVENT

An event is a place in spacetime.

An event is an entity. And whenever it occurs, i.e. comes into being in spacetime, it will always be the same. Moving forward along the time axis does not mean that one has left the event “behind”, for the event can move and appear anywhere too. Time only qualifies it finely, while space conditionalises it more basically. That is, not it itself, the event, but its outer form.

The event itself stays the same – and each time it re-occurs you will at the end recognise it as being the same event that once happened thousands of years ago that has just repeated itself again.

Thus be on your guard, like a watchman from his tower; for the motion of life will bring us all back to the Event again. And again.

Where you stood yesterday, you might fall today.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

ELEMENTARY MOTION

Primary motion, elementary rhythmn, pace, pattern and period is determined or established by the faithfully unceasing – i.e. constant – activity of Substantiality, driven by and helping to carry the driving force of the Will of God, expressed in the natural laws.

All WE do is detect and attempt to measure evidences of this primary rhythmn or elementary motion, and divine or devise (i.e. evolve under the pressure of reception) units with which to uniformly record, report and compute the results of these measurements.

That is, all we can do is adjust to nature, to Creation, and identify order within the pattern of our adjustments. And because there is order in nature, all successful attempts to adjust to nature will settle into orderly patterns, and all observations of those patterns will enable the devising of units of measurements and adherence with which to capture and/or fulfill this system of order.

Science reduces its recognition of this orderly system into equations that symbolise axioms, hypotheses and theorems. On the other hand, Religion breaks down its own recognitions into beliefs, creeds and dogmas. In essence, in which ever sense, all we capture, record, tabulate, systemise and express are our recognitions or assumptiosn based on our observations of elementary motion itself, to which we are subject and out of which, or out of the side effects of which, we emerged in Creation.

With the activity of our free will, we can lift ourselves up into regions of faster manifestation of elementary motion. Or we can also cause ourselves to densify and sink further away from the source of the driving force that powers what we experience, or what we detect, and believe to be primary – or a more primary state – of motion, i.e. we can also sink into regions and perceptions of a more sluggish elementary rhythmn. But the basic logic of elementary motion never changes and always yields uniform laws of motion expressed in the character of the plane being observed.

Elementary motion itsef is, or must be, an expression, or reflection, or vehicle, or echo, of primordial impulse or original life, eternal life, i.e. LIFE itself. An evidence of that GOD whose existence we sense but never can reach; the Origin of Eternity without beginning and without end.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

MOCKERY

Mockery is one of the greatest weapons of the Darkness
In its fight against the Light
And it is one against which Light-seekers and Light-servants
Are powerless and defenceless the most
Because it strikes them at the core of their ego and vanity
The deepest weakness within all human beings.

Bear this in mind:
A helping thought for the earnest seeker.
It will strengthen you in your hour of vulnerability.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.