Life’s poetry is kindness.
Art, poetry, music or philosophy
Without humanity is blindness.
For what is ability without sympathy?
No matter how great it’s climb is,
It is still empty
As long as it is lacking in kindness.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
For some things are soft
And some things are hard
Some things you leave exposed
Some things you guard
Sometimes progress
Means to take a step backward
To find the beginning again
And now go properly forward.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
Pillows
Made of sorrows
That soften our tomorrows
Today
Feel the pain today
Rest your heart on it, my dear…
One day it will go away
And tomorrow will be here.
Repeat: cry, laugh, cry, play.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
Spontaneous swims
The rain fall wins
Desire and disinterest are twins
Sometimes you look and say nothing
Sometimes you say something
And sometimes you try everything.
Whims. Oh, these whims.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
In a world of AI, sometimes take the time to write down your own thoughts by yourself, so you don’t forget who you are.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
Many things are granted just one moment
Take it or leave it
If you miss it
You can never again retrieve it.
Sometimes
The moment is very short
A moment, a second, a minute, an hour,
Believe it or not. Did you believe
And deliver
Or did you abort?
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
You will meet people
Without meeting them
You will see people
Without seeing them
You will know people
Without knowing them
And you will leave people
Without leaving them.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
Sometimes people don’t realise the enormity
of what they have done until much later.
Somebody hurts the other
And the other hurts another
And this other hurts some other
Who hurts yet another
And the cycle of hurt continues
Until one person decides to take the hurt
And keep it
And not pass it on to any other –
And ends the cycle of hurt.
The enormity of the act
Of starting the cycle of hurt
Is surpassed by the enormity of the act
Of ending the cycle of hurt
Even if neither of them is aware
Of what they did when they did it
But forever and ever
The forgiver is always greater than the avenger
And the lover is always greater than the hater.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
Let’s speak
And when I
Say Hi
Don’t answer me
With AI –
Form your own words
Remind yourself how it used to be
When you used to think hard
And go down into the depth of your intuition
In search for your own perspective
And your own way of expressing it
And finding your own words
With which to say Hi
In your own way.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
We flow
We slow down
Yet we flow
We go fast
While we flow
We grow
As we flow
And come to know
Because we flow
And never stop flowing.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 