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SURVIVAL SHOULD NEVER BE RACIALISED

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Every global problem comes with special extra dimensions of evil for Black people.

Blacks being prevented from escaping war in Ukraine. Thrown out of busses and trains. Refused entry at the Ukraine-Poland border. Many of them students. Some of them women with children.

BUT everybody wants easy access to the minerals under African soil.

War brings out the Ugliness – and the Truth – in humanity.

I feel pain. Because you want to help others. But does anybody want to help you?

You want to show solidarity with others. But no one wants to show solidarity with you.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

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LOVE IS THE GOOD FIGHT

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It‘s just a day like any other
Despite flowers, bub and ice cream
Unless you touch deeply another
Member of the human lonely hearts‘ team.

So, along the way:
Let your heart find an inner stream
On Valentine’s Day
Something so real it feels like a dream.

A Dream of another humanity
Justice, sharing and solidarity.
Love is the fight to banish animosity
And hatred, and usher in global unity.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

MEMORYLESS TRAVEL

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You have to get there to remember.

On the way there you will forget
Where you are going to
And why.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

POEMS DON‘T CHANGE

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Places change people
People change places
Places change people
People change places

Races change people
People change races
Races change people
People change races

Faces change people
People change faces
Faces change people
People change faces

The person who started this poem
Is not the person who finished it.
Poems change people –
But people don‘t change poems.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

GENTLY TREAD

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Just because I‘m alive doesn‘t mean I‘m not dead
Just because I‘m talking doesn’t mean anything has been said
Just because I‘m lost doesn’t mean I‘m not being led

You might still be hungry, even after you‘ve been fed,
when you’ve been fed stones instead of bread

Those who heal wounds today, have also once bled.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

OPENING UP

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My heart was broken
Over and over and over again by life
Until I was sure
That life really loves me
Or else it wouldn’t keep on opening me.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

SELF-CONFIDENCE

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Confidence.
The beginning and the end
Of Fulfilment.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

SOME COME, SOME GO

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Talk to the clouds
As you would talk to a departed friend
As you would write to a distant lover
As you would whisper to your future
Quietly within your heart.

For they are dreams
Gathering on the roof of your destiny
And they shall rain upon you
Or they shall disperse and quietly disappear –
Some are fulfilled, some are not. This is life.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

TWILIGHT HORIZON

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Eternal sunset
Unending dusk
Rolled along the edge of the earth
Creased the Northpole and gave birth to
Eternal sunrise
Never-ending dawn
From dusk to dawn like a painted horizon
At twilight born by a giant drawn.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

THE INVISIBLE CLOUDFOLK

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Always this feeling
When I‘m sitting on the clouds
Like a horseman ranging afield:
There must be someone
There must be some people
There must be some folk
Living up here in the clouds
Loving the sun
Loving the moon
Loving the stars.
We just don‘t see them
Anymore.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije