Of Adulation

WOMAN’S HEART

~ Che ~ Leave a comment

Women are usually emotionally far ahead of men. For brief moments, the men might overtake, but in the overall story, usually a woman’s heart knows more than a man’s heart, knows it earlier than the man’s heart, remembers more than the man’s heart does, and retains the memory for much much longer than a man’s heart ever could.

Without woman’s heart we would lose our memory of home and our understanding of homeliness. When a woman goes, the home goes. And when a woman comes, Home comes back. The heart of woman alone can dig a tunnel to hell or span Heimdall’s bridge to Heaven. And she does it quietly, right there beside you, where the half of them poison you and kill your spirit’s joy, and the other half of them heal you and make you deeply happy. With just a few words, and sometimes even without saying a word.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

THAT ONE

~ Che ~ 1 Comment 
You can come as close to me as you want
You still cannot get in.
You can go as deep into me as you want
But still deep within
My heart there is a door
And if you’re not the one it’s meant for
You can’t get in.

You can go as far away from me as possible
You still remain inside me
I can push you as far away from me as possible
But still deep inside me
There is one tender space
And you alone live inside this place
That is the home in me.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

INNER WARMTH

~ Che ~ Leave a comment 
There is fire in your Heart
Even though you keep quiet
Or laugh loud to play your part
When awkwardness is at its height

It is a warm quiet resolute fire
Burning subterraneously
A nocturnal town-crier
Subtle intensity

Everybody in your vicinity
Is warmed by you
Without understanding completely
Why they like being with you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

VISITOR FROM HEAVEN

~ Che ~ Leave a comment 
You were there
I saw you even if many others did not
You were there
I saw you even if even my eyes did not
You were there
I saw you.

I saw you in the swelling of my heart
In the paths that my thoughts did chart
I saw you, for they were thoughts of thee.
Thoughts of all those things which Thou art
The origin, the beginning, the head, the start
I saw you in my sensing of eternity.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

HUMAN GUITAR

~ Che ~ Leave a comment 
A window into another world you are
Smaller than a moon you are a star
Nearer than proximity you feel from afar
Sealed to others my heart to you is ajar
You’ve got a ticket I’ve got a fast car
I am the wound you are the tender scar
Strumming my pain fingering my guitar.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Poems from the inner river

BOYS TO MEN

~ Che ~ Leave a comment

The older I get,
The more I miss my father.
The more knowing I grow,
The more I miss him.
The more I know him.
The more I understand him.
We live life forwards,
But understand life backwards.
When it‘s too late to change anything,
That’s when we understand everything.
The young shall grow.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
(I just feel like remembering today)

YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL

~ Che ~ Leave a comment

Horrible to him
Wonderful to me
Ugly to day
Beautiful to night

I see with eyes
That see surprise
I hear with ears
That hear falling tears

I see the woman
Being human
I love the human
Being in the woman

I know your value
I know the worth
Of your old-fashioned Virtue
Pretty or not,
You’re beautiful.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

NOT MY EARTHLY, BUT MY HEAVENLY FATHER

~ Che ~ Leave a comment

What binds me to my earthly father is
Love, duty, gratitude, respect and admiration.

What binds me to my Heavenly Father is
Eternal life,
Eternal gratitude,
Eternal purpose,
Eternal faithfulness here and everywhere,
Now and forever.

Not my earthly – but my Heavenly – Father.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

THE RELIGION OF MUSIC

~ Che

For a long time, decades,
I forgot about the power of music
I stopped believing that music can
Change the world.

It is easy to stop believing it
Because many people also do not really believe it
And so everywhere around you, people agree with you
In a gentle cynical sad way

But there is something greater than belief
It is Knowledge. Memory. New experiencing –
Conviction. Re-cognition. It comes upon you when music
Changes your world and brings you back to life
Inside you again –
This is what Music does to everything.

Then you become a believer again
And a disciple and a missionary of
The Religion of Music.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

Alien Coming Soon

~ Che

I was at the ruins of Eppstein Castle last Sunday, shooting the Music Video for “Alien You‘re My Baby“

Coming soon.

Album: First Nature – Che Chidi Chukwumerije
1.
Strange woman
Something about you
You’re like an alien
And yet you make me feel so human… ahaha…
Alien, You’re My Baby

2.
Sax solo

3.
Your rhythm, My rhythm, your Rhythm
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm
Your Rhythm, My Rhythm, your Rhythm…

4.
Beautiful alien
And when You’re hurting
It hurts me deeply
And it just makes me feel so human… ahaha…
Alien, You’re My Baby

5.
Sax solo

6.
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm
Your Rhythm, My Rhythm, your Rhythm
My Rhythm, your Rhythm, My Rhythm

7.
Sax solo

8.
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby Girl
Alien, You’re My Baby, My Baby…

9.
Repeat

10.
Sax Exit
With adlib
Hedabedabe..
Hedabedachapechapedaba…

11.
Repeat

Che Chidi Chukwumerije