Of human beings

QUENCH YOUR THIRST

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Layers of selves.
Slivers of lives.
Slices of shells.
Depths of dives.
How many sides make a human?
How many hides cloak a human heart? They say we meet to part – but to which part?
Which of our many parts?
Every moment departs.
Beauty is just one feature in an ugly creature.
It is deeper than second nature.
It is the first.
Only your first nature will quench your thirst.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
QUENCH YOUR THIRST
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(An afternoon / evening in Hamburg)

Music: FIRST NATURE by Che Chidi Chukwumerije

WALKING WOUNDS

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We are all walking wounds
Chimeras and Illusions trigger us
And then we fall into a deep hole
Lashing out at shadows that don‘t exist
And hurting real people who never hurt us
And who don’t know why we‘re hurting them
Inside them where they walk their own wounds.

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

SEEING THROUGH

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One of the downsides of seeing through humanity
Is that nothing inspires or excites you anymore
Or fills you with a sense of expectation…
Because you always bear the sad certainty
Within you
Of knowing how things are going to end.

One of the upsides of seeing through humanity
Is that nothing disappoints and shocks you anymore
Or fills you with a sense of hopelessness…
Because you always bear the the quiet recognition
Through experiencing
Of knowing that things always re-start.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

WEAKNESS

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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

LISTEN

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Always hear the unsaid when people talk;
Perceive the noise in the silence.
See the hidden stumble in their walk;
Read the unwritten hope for peace
Even in their threats of violence.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

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GET USED TO BLACK

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Black is not a fad, and not a trend –
It was here first & it is here to stay ‘til the end.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

BOYS TO MEN

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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)

ONE DAY IT’LL BE TOO LATE

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If you’re mad and you know you’re mad
Are you mad?
If you’re sad and you know you’re sad
Why don’t you smile?
If you’re bad and you know you’re bad
Then you know what’s good –
If you’re glad and you know you’re glad
Share it and make someone else smile.

Life is going by so quick
Not just the individual life of you and me
Sometimes one has this strange feeling
That humankind itself also
Won’t be here forever
Our species too will die out
Inspite – or because – of all our great knowledge.

One by one, we will bury each other
And after the last sister has buried her last brother
Her final prayer before she too quietly departs
Will be that God forgive all our human hearts
For not understanding on time
That only Love furnishes the perfect last rhyme.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

HUMAN HEART

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Santa and Satan are spelled with the same letters.
I just noticed it, please don’t crucify me.
Just know there’s a thin line between the two.
Sometimes when you think you’re looking out through a window, you’re actually looking at a mirror.

Saw this picture and liked it.
Something is buried in your heart and it could be anything. It’s probably everything.
Some pains will stay forever – well, probably not forever. Until you change and forgive and let go. Or until you die, I mean really die. Even when you forget, still you feel the pain and don’t know why. And then you remember – but you still don’t know why you took that first wrong step into the future.

But when you look at the serpent well, sometimes it seems as if it’s rising up to strike or writhing in treachery and deception. And sometimes it feels as if it’s begging for help and crying for forgiveness and looking for redemption. But some unsuspecting fool will pass by and think they’re looking at a heart. But you know better. You know you’re looking at a warning.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

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