Of Relationships

UNFRIENDING

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A friend
Is a person who your heart trusts
With or without a reason understandable to your mind.

And when your heart then distrusts
There is also a reason why
But sometimes only the intuition knows it at first

If the friend has told a deep lie
And then the truth and the lie
Begin to grow side by side beside each other

And the matured truth shall say to the matured lie
How strange, how hard to believe,
That you and I once thought we were friends.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

LET THEM

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People that want to come,
Let them come.
People who want to go,
Let them go.
Chase none, but tell some
That they should come;
However if they still want to go,
Don’t beg them, let them go
Back to where they’re coming from.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

STRANGE

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The distance from coast to coast
Hurts the heart the most
And the silence from ghost to ghost
The heart is a strange host.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE GOD OF THE WILLING

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We cannot use God to hide away from the world. Rather we should use God to engage with, decipher and overcome the world. Above all, the world within us. God is not for cowards or weaklings. God is for the brave, the bold, the adventurous, the determined, the open, those who are ready to use the earthlife for that for which it was granted to them: to experience, and to grow through this experiencing.

The form or the content of the experiencing is different for each person. For some it is a quiet thing they need to experience, for others it is a loud thing; for some it is a popular thing they must dare, for others it is an unpopular or even a seemingly inconsequential thing; for some it is a controversial thing, for others it is a safe and boring and therefore annoying and unbearable thing; for some it is personal love, for others it is objective love.

Everybody has those things that will call their heart deeply – and running to God will still not free you from them. There is no escape because it is inside you. God is not there to hide you from yourself or from your challenges. God is there to help you to deal with them. That is why HE granted you this earth life, because HE knows you will need every second of whatever length of time you earned for yourself in this current incarnation.

So, get to work! Go for it. Set off with the business of living by experiencing. God will help you if you are brave and honest.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

DANCE

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A little distance
A little resistance
A little dance
A little happenstance
A little chance
A little romance
Balance.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

TYPES

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Sometimes you are just not someone’s type. They might be attracted to you for a while, curious about you, interested in you, be entertained by you. But in the end they will betray you or leave you, because deep within their heart you are actually not their type or what they’re looking for.

And there are two types of them. Those that will tell you honestly up front. And those who won’t.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

LOVE, LOYALTY AND HONESTY

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True love is given automatically
Irresistibly and totally
Without being demanded extraordinarily
Or exclusively.

Loyalty is given freely
Happily, personally and genuinely
Without being prompted forcefully
Or granted guiltily.

Only honesty is voluntary
It’s a choice, it’s not arbitrary
You decide deliberately in the sanctuary
Of your heart to be honest or to the contrary.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

(NOT) YOURS

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When it’s no longer yours
It doesn’t hurt if someone else has it,
It only hurts as long as it’s still yours
And someone else has it.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

CHOOSE

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The Person I choose
Has to choose me too
In order for me to choose them
There is no us without you
Only me.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

RELATIONSHIP WITH REALITY

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All I can tell you is this,
Never entertain liars in your life.
No matter how painful reality is,
Let the Truth always be your wife
Or husband. Not a human or a face
But Truth itself should be your true spouse,
Permanently nourishing you deep within you.
Not a building, not an edifice or a space
But the Truth itself should be your real house,
Permanently protecting you deep within you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river