Of Ruralness

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

HARMATTAN LEAVES

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Dusty green leaves
Harmattan leaves you husky
With the haze of dawn and dusk
West Africa will Chest Saharan breath
Lovingly for three months
Until it springs into the Atlantic
Like a restless traveller into his lover.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

BEFORE I SLEEP

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The tropical warmth
With teeth as strong as roots
Beating on lion skin drums
Evening voiced on bamboo flutes
Fleeting memory
That happened too long ago
To be remembered properly
Before I sleep more miles to go.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

FOREST WALK

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A stroll through the curious trees
Respectfully quiet to put you at ease
What you hear is the noonday breeze
Tell us your thoughts, human, if you please.

But you hear neither the watching trees
Nor the quietly questioning noonday breeze
All you know - correct me, if you please -
Is that in your heart you simply feel at ease.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

FORGET ME NOT

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That deep moment
When the grass is calm
The gale is spent
Nature is bent
On being your heart’s balm

A busy butterfly
Like a restless thought
Flutters by
Waving hi and goodbye
Forget me not

Forget me not.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river