HORSE ON BLUE WATERS

Horse On Blue Waters.
From my album “Class Act: The Nature Within”
Listen to the full album here: https://listen.music-hub.com/3MgAgm

Che Chidi Chukwumerije (CH3)

GOLD’S LOW STANDARDS

Who decided that gold is the standard?
Why do we think it is so valuable?
A shiny metal. Can we eat it? Yet we bombard
Humankind with unkind mined metal unable
To nourish spirit or body or soul or even mind -
But greed needs a rampart for greed is blind
And money is the mockery of the honest grind.

Silver and gold have brought sorrow untold
To the timid and the bold, the young and the old,
Warm-blooded and cold-hearted who all departed
Without a dust of gold from the path they started
Upon, seeking value in materialism’s charms
And losing their value in materialism’s arms’
Creeping stranglehold that grins and harms.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

CHANCES ARE

To me it’s neither a window nor a door
This thing called opportunity
It’s a cloud, a bubble, foam on the shore
Of nature’s recurring serendipity
You will get chances to rise
And you will get chances to fall
Which one of these two you utilise
Well, that is your call.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

NO OTHERS

I stopped wanting others
After I met you -
And I still don’t want any others
Even after I’ve lost you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

GUM BUBBLE

Something is wrong with the
world fundamentally,
But nobody can put their
finger on what it is exactly.

The world’s borrowers owe
the world’s lenders much more money
Than the whole world makes and owns -
It’s almost funny.

Where did all that money come
from and where did it go to?
Creditors and debtors are one
and the same entities too.

What is money? What is currency?
Before them how did the world feel?
The value of distrust is greedy -
It’s all just numbers. It’s not real.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE BEST YOU

To love is to trust
Because love is the most
vulnerable feeling on earth

To trust is to respect
Because trust is the purest
compliment that has worth

To respect is to obligate
Because respect indicates
expectation of highest virtue

To love is to trust
is to respect is to obligate
you to be the best you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

CHUXXIC GROOVE

CHUXXIC GROOVE
from the album “Le Chuxx” (2009)

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

OPEN

I am a very open person
If you come into my life
I will open up to you
But I will open you up too

If you are not ready to be open
Don’t come into my life  
Because I will naked you
And get to the core of You

What we see when we get there
We might not like
But we will understand and trust each other
From that moment onwards


Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

SLOWNESS AND SPEED

Many times tomorrow comes today
If you finish today’s task early;
Many times yesterday returns today
If you finished it prematurely;
They rhyme and seen to be the same thing
But will each result in a different ending.

It’s a fine line between slowness and speed;
Knowing the difference between need and greed;
To capture and move like eyes when they read;
Quickness must follow, Thoroughness must lead;
The path from intuition, through thought, to deed;
Only through fulfilment can you be freed.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

PEOPLE SAY ALL SORTS

When people insist
I love you more
Put them to the test
They won’t love you anymore

When people claim
I don’t love you anymore
Treat them the same
They’ll love you once more

Don’t base everything
On just what people say
People will say anything
Just to get through another day

Everybody wants happiness
But not everyone really knows
How to get that happiness -
We’re all searching and it shows.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river