Wie viel Liebe erträgt ein einsames Herz bevor sie sich umwandelt in Schmerz? Wieviel Sehnsucht erträgt ein verlorenes Herz bevor es sich begibt auf die Reise heimwärts? Wieviel Gemüt erträgt ein Winterherz bevor es endlich auftaut im März? Es hört nicht auf zu schmerzen unter dem Lachen und Scherzen; Worte auf Papier kann man schwärzen aber Herze brennen weiter wie Kerzen. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
2025
NEVER KNOWING FOR SURE
Knowing you‘ll Never know what happened
Is the most painful knowledge to possess
Because one thing that will never happen,
People will never ever voluntarily confess
Unless they change deep within
And then it makes no difference anymore,
The person who admits the sin
Is not the person who once opened the sore,
The person who comes back in
Is not the same person who walked out the door,
The opportunity to confront the mysterious djinn
Is gone for good and forevermore.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
ANDERE MEINUNGEN
Ich suche nach anderen Meinungen und finde stets die selben, die meinen die anderen zu sein und akzeptieren die anderen nicht, denn sie sind die kleinen. Ich suche nach anderen Meinungen und finde stets die alten in neuen Formen - Was ich aber suche ist ein neues Innenwesen, auch wenn verkleidet in alt aussehenden Normen. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
THE HEART’S INDEPENDNECE
Your Heart is an independent being, Don’t mess with it or it will show you pepper. All the wahala you think you’ve been seeing Will be yam when it shows you real shege. It will riot and refuse to obey you; It will sing praise songs to your enemies; It will believe things that are not true And long for its own self-decided remedies. It will turn into a wild unpredictable stranger With its own rules and on its own mission; It will rush forward and fear no danger, Driven by its own incomprehensible Vision. And when it hurts it will burn like hellfire; And when it laughs, you feel you’re in paradise; And when it loves it loves with fierce desire; But if it dies, your urge to live also dies. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
WEISHEIT
Um nicht mehr dumm zu sein, Muss man die eigene Dummheit erkennen; Denn dumm werden wir immer sein. Aber in dem, daß wir uns zu ihr bekennen, Lernen wir, sie in Weisheit umzubenennen. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
WHERE THE HEART BELONGS
Someone who doesn’t take you with both hands, willingly and eagerly and totally, that person is not your home, nor you theirs. No matter how much it hurts, tear yourself away from them and move on.
Wounds heal with time.
We live in two worlds simultaneously. The one world is politics and society, is work and recreation, is projects and ambitions and all kinds of responsibilities, is ideologies, and is even family too sometimes. This is the one world, in which we chase achievements.
But there is another world in which we also live. It is deeper, is more subtle, more intense, quieter, and often very invisible. It is the loves that come and go; the tears and longings that burn our hearts; the seldom laughter of genuine joy; the raw friendships; the secret passionate love affairs; the intimately guarded happy home; the given trust and the broken trust; it is the real us deep inside.
We live in these two worlds simultaneously. And then time passes, and we die. And our obituary is full of what we did in the one world. While all our memories from the other world depart with us quietly in our hearts. And in the hearts of those who shared it with us.
Wounds will heal with time. But, while you’re on that journey, don’t go to where your heart does not belong. Seek your happiness in being true to yourself, always.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
WORDS WORTH LITTLE
What are words worth On this lonely earth? Actions seem more honest But they also lie the best. You don’t know what to believe - Even silence too can deceive. Only what you intuitively perceive Will in the end be your reprieve. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
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
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