THE INVISIBLE CLOUDFOLK

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

YOU AND YOUR STRENGTH

When I was younger
My strength was stronger
Than I was
And it made me do what it wanted
And made me undaunted.

Now that I am older
I have become bolder
Than my strength
And I make it do what I want
On every other battlefront.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

MIND THE MOMENT

Your time will always pass
And it will pass at a time
Least convenient to you
Just as it came at a time
Not quite expected by you
And lasted for a length of time
Unappreciated by you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

THE OTHER WAY

Obstacles open the way. The other way.
When they come your way
They have not come to block your way,
But to force you to look the other way
And see another, better, righter, deeper way
And learn to see a way where there is no way.
They have come to show you the way.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

BOYS TO MEN

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)

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCKING ON WHOSE DOOR?

Opportunity is temptation
Take not every one that comes
It knocks but once, they say
But where does it open into?
Stay on your path.

When in doubt,
Listen inwards.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.