People never come back They move on to the new you Or to their new perception of you With or without you And you move on to the new them Or to your new perception of them With or without them But the old will never come back. Tomorrow will come. Those who try to cling on to the past Lose their way and orientation very fast Because Time never goes back. Those who meet again do so in the future As different people with a different Nature Because only going forward takes you back Home. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
2026
ONE LOVE
You can only love one person, you can never love two people or even more. True love. In order to love another person, you have to first change and become a different person. But the person who loved that first person can never ever love another person. Once your heart has bonded, it can never ever unbond again, until it dies and becomes born again as a new heart.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
ECHT SEIN
Es muss echt sein und von Innen kommen Egal ob bei Politik oder Wirtschaft Bei der Arbeit und in der Gesellschaft In der Familie, in der Nachbarschaft In der Liebe und in der Freundschaft Echtheit ist es, was die Ewigkeit schafft. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
SELF-RESTRAINT
Just because it’s available Doesn’t mean you should take it; Just because it’s achievable Doesn’t mean you should make it; Just because it’s vulnerable Doesn’t mean you should break it; Just because it’s uncomfortable Doesn’t mean you should fake it; Just because it’s unshakeable Doesn’t mean you should shake it; Just because it’s accessible Doesn’t mean you should wake it; Just because it’s expendable Doesn’t mean you should stake it; Just because it’s edible Doesn’t mean you should bake it. Some things you just leave as they are. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
YOUR SELF-WORTH: AN ETERNAL AND PERPETUAL SUNRISE WITHIN YOU
Your self-worth does not depend on another person’s acceptance of you or love for you. It is your own personal fundamental imprint upon Creation, your contribution to the flowering of the universe, your service to God. It is the authenticity with which you do everything you do; it is the truthfulness you manifest in all your dealings; it is the joy you bear within you inspite of all the reversals and disappointments you may experience; it is your loyalty to goodness above all things; it is your claiming of your right to dare and to fail without being mocked; and it is your claiming of your right to succeed.
It is your humility when you boldly lead and your dignity when you faithfully follow; it is your free will; it is your ability to love yourself and to love others; it is your honesty to yourself when you have erred; it is self-correction and self-motivation; it is your sense of principles; it is the love you give back to those who love you; but it is also your freedom from the chains of those who love you; and yet it is also your duty of truthfulness and dignity to those with whom you share a bond of trust; it is your obligation to your promises and the way you stand up to them; it is the firmness with which you resist evil; it is the severity with which you tell yourself the truth after you have yielded to wrongness.
It is your sense of humanness, your consciousness of being someone; it is your fighting spirit, your refusal to die spiritually or emotionally; it is the eternal and perpetual Sunrise which you carry within you; it does not require another person to be sad in order for you to be happy; it does not require others to be a nobody in order for you to be a somebody; it is your sensing and seeking and going of your own path, without unjustly intruding on others’ paths and free will; it is all this and more. But it definitely does not depend on the love or acceptance you receive from anybody else. It stands by itself, an integral part of you. It is You.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
DER LETZTE AUGEN-BLICK
Im aller letzten Augenblick kommt immer wie geschickt eine Wendung zum Pech oder Glück. Der letzte Herzschlag entlässt die Seele in sein wahres Geschick. Die letzte Umarmung, das letzte Wort tötet die Liebe oder holt sie zurück. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
LICENCE TO LAUGH
Learn to bear your pain in aloneness, But don’t bear your aloneness in pain. Aloneness should bring relief from stress, Should help you inner peace to attain. Being alone with your sorrow is sad; Share your aloneness instead with your gladness. Seclusion allows the Healing Power of GOD to save you from overstimulation and madness. And you will be born anew in silence, For aloneness is the mother of transformation. And joy shall be your portion and your licence To laugh again, in you a flame of Devotion. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
JEDER SICH SELBST
Stimmen stimmen
überstimmen
und übereinstimmen
Sehen sehen
aussehen übersehen
Einsehen einsehen
Leben leben
ausleben durchleben
und Leben überleben
Du machst Du
Ich mache ich
Jeder macht sich selbst.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
STRANGE WAYFELLOWS
People are already on a path when you meet them, On their own path, with their own mission. You think they’re walking with you, but then Suddenly they jump off at some junction. As strange and disorienting as it seems to you, The truth is that it was not a new decision That they took. They were never really with you, They were always going in their own direction. You were just entertainment along the way Or brief company, and victim of an illusion. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the Inner river
DAS WICHTIGSTE STETS IM AUGE BEHALTEN
Wichtige Sachen sind wenig. Die unwichtigen überwiegen und selten finde ich einen Moment zum himmelwärts Fliegen Wer Gott finden will, darf nicht auf die Gelegenheit warten - Der muss die Verbindung zu Ihm suchen in allen Dingen und Arten. Bei der Arbeit, beim Spiel und Spaß, beim Lieben und beim Leiden; bist Du gezwungen in zwei Welten zu leben, findest Du auch Gott in beiden. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
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