Change leads to more change Every trigger triggers another trigger When life wants to rearrange Your life and make it even bigger It uses sudden change and surprise Pain is an inconsequential by-product Or a tool, a school, but the real prize Is your next level waiting to be unlocked So embrace change that refuses To be refused and powers itself through And challenges you and confuses You and transforms you into a higher you. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
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WAS IT A DREAM?
Dreams What do they mean? So many things happen in them - And yet nothing happened. So many things never happened in them And yet everything happens one day But I have forgotten Until Déjà vu. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
PARTS OF WAYS
Ways part in part And while parts of ways Stay apart other parts Remain inside the heart Until the harmattan of days Has cleared and the haze Lifts and a new path starts. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
MAKING AMENDS
I make many mistakes
But I make them honestly
And, whatever it takes,
I try to correct them eventually.
If I offended you, know for sure
That I carry regret in my heart
And hope to make amends before
One of us from this earth shall depart.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
HEALING ANEW
Let the hope arise in you again
Like an eternal sun of love
And dissolve repeatedly your pain
Like a magnet drawing from Above
Free yourself from heavy thoughts,
Let a happy current course through you;
Gradually life connects all the dots
Morning after morning healing anew.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
LIFE EXPRESSION
Your life is the expression of yourself
And yourself is the expression of your life,
Your surface is the mirror of your depth,
In you is the strength to overcome all strife.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
DISILLUSIONMENT
That moment comes and it suddenly clicks, That someone you thought was close to you Really does not know you. The mind played tricks - Or was it the heart? - on both of you. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
SERVICE
In the morning when the sun arises A light shall also dawn within you, A clarity that intrinsically recognises What on Earth you are supposed to do - To awaken to service to the good, For kindness, honesty, courage and humility Are life’s deeper nourishment and food And the template of humanity. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
YOU KNOW
Go at your own pace Let no one hurry you Your life has deeper value Than just to be in a race. Frame your own narrative Own your own story Share your own memory Everybody’s is selective. Only you know Deep within your soul Your heart’s true goal You alone know. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
FEEL IT FULLY
Feel it fully Intensely not dully Pain beyond measure Is one of the earth’s treasures It grows your heart Makes it strong, soft and alert All in one. Your true heart Your spirit, your innermost part That lives on and on and on And on and on and on… Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
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