Be present
In the moment
Or when your moment comes
You will be absent
In it.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
English
DEJA VU
Is the future
a story we read in the past
and forget in the present?
Or is tomorrow
a story we wrote yesterday?
and life is reading it back to us today.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
#poemsthatmakeyouthink
POWER
All power belongs to God, and only to God. If power is given to you, then you are just temporarily a vessel through which power in part will seek to fulfil the Will of God.
If you try to wield power and to bend it to your own will, and use it solely in service of your own ego and volition, then it will turn against you and destroy you, even if this destruction only becomes obvious to you after you have left this earth and it is too late to stop or reverse your self-destruction via power.
This is the worst kind of destruction, the one that becomes visible only after you have left the earth. You will have to come again as a baby and live a new life, to attempt to painfully undo the errors of the former.
Power is a very strange thing. It is not what you think it is. It is not what you see or think that you are seeing. What you see as power, no matter how obvious or subtle it may be, is just a temporary vessel through which power seeks to fulfil the Will of God. For all power belongs to God.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
WEAKNESS
The greatest strength
is the strength to look beyond
your own strength
and find in your weakness
strength in other people’s strength.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
#poemsthatmakeyouthink
JOYFUL ACTIVITY
There’s a reason why it’s called Eternal Life,
Not perpetual snooze or eternal sleep.
Stop saying “rest in peace”
to those who have left the earth for the afterlife.
Wish them instead a safe journey
And Joyful luminous activity
For all eternity.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
#poemsthatmakeyouthink
LIFE GOES ON
The departed are not dead
They do not rest in peace
If they rest, they have no peace
If they have peace, they‘re not at rest.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
#poemsthatmakeyouthink
EACH IS OTHER
Life is made up of many realities
living next to each other
They are not pretending
to get along with each other
They think they are getting along
with each other
And so they do. Coexist.
Mainly unaware of each other.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
#poemsthatmakeyouthink
DESTINATION UNCERTAIN
The earth is not just carrying us
We are carrying the earth too
We attract each other with gravitational forces
Where are we carrying the earth to?
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
#poemsthatmakeyouthink
STATE OF BEING YOU
It’s hard to get excited when you see through everyone and everything.
And also when you’ve seen through your own self to the core, it’s hard to whip up enthusiasm for things you know well are not you or yours. It’s like a kind of boredom.
Only your small simple little things satisfy your life now and you tend to just want to stick to them, whether the world says they’re right or wrong. They’re yours.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
INTERVIEW IN OSAKA
BEGEGNUNG IN OSAKA, 23.02.2020
So eine schöne Begegnung, aus der ich so viel mitnehme. Vor allem: Es ist gar nicht so schwer, Verständnis für einander zu entwickeln und in Frieden miteinander zu leben, wenn der Mensch es einfach wirklich will! Und was anderes habe ich auch gelernt: Die Macht des früh (falsch) Gelernten oder Verinnerlichten. Ich zähle seit ich von den Alpen das erste Mal erfahren habe, vor vielen Jahren, die Zugspitze irgendwie zu der Schweiz! Frag mich nicht warum. Liegt nicht mal an deren Grenze. Dieser Fehler hat mir jahrzehntelang still schweigend gefolgt und mich heute in Osaka eingeholt. Anhand solcher Kleinigkeiten merke ich, daß ich nicht in Deutschland zur Schule gegangen bin. Bei “Wer wird Millionär?” würde ich eher an den ersten 5 Fragen scheitern, als an den restlichen 15. Also muß ich, nach dem ich Osaka besucht habe, auch endlich mal die Zugspitze mit einem Besuch erstatten. Denn interessante Menschen und interessante Begegnungen gibt es überall, wie man sieht. 😉
*ps – the highest mountain in Germany is called the Zugspitze.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 