Of Seeking

BE WHO YOU ARE

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It does not matter who your father is,
Or was. It only matters who you are;
Throw off the reputational burden of his
Life, whether a nobody, a crook or a star.

It does not matter who your mother is,
Was, or will be. You have your own destiny.
Be firm in rejecting her spirit’s liabilities,
Nor bask in her glory. Write your own story.

Never ever allow family to be your bondage.
If wealth is not health, detach and go higher.
The chains of name, blood, and heritage
Are human assumptions, not God’s desire.

God wants each unique creature to be true,
So experience and enrich the world as You.
Free your children too from the Obligation to
Follow, serve, help, complete or redeem you.

If your story happens to be your family’s too,
Then so be it, that’s who you genuinely are.
But if your story is totally different and new,
Don’t feel guilty; accept and be who you are.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE LOVE MIRROR

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Mirror mirror on the wall -
Who‘s the fairest of them all?

Mirror mirror, as they fall -
Who’s the dearest of them all?

Mirror mirror, hear them call -
Who’s the nearest of them all?

Mirror mirror, it is dull -
Who’s the clearest of them all?

The eyes are the window of the soul
And the mirror of the world within -
Mirror my soul, picture me whole,
Let me come in and let love begin.

Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who’s the surest of them all?

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

ALL BECAUSE OF LOVE

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We make mistakes
And mistakes make us
Who we are
This is who we are

We make decisions
And decisions make us
What we are
This is what we are

We make friends
And friends make us
How we are
This is how we are

We make love
And love makes us
Why we are
This is why we are.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

SONG OF RENEWAL

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Once you burst the bubble,
Spare yourself the trouble;
Nothing that you do
can ever bring it back again.

The bubble had its season,
The bursting had its reason;
Their veracity’s value
Is not diminished by your pain.

The past looks real but isn’t,
The gift is in the present;
It makes you transform You -
The only goal you can truly attain.

Metamorphosis is life’s pleasure,
It’s a treasure beyond measure;
It makes you constantly renew
Your focus on your spiritual lane.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

BE RIGHT DO RIGHT

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It‘s character that gets to heaven,
not knowledge. Knowledge might
know the way there even,
but only character can attain the height
of being, by doing,
not just by knowing.
Be right, do right, lets there be light.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

MAKING SENSE

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Some things don’t seem to make sense
And yet they’re right. You just feel it inside.
The intuition accompanies common sense
And makes it make sense from another side.
Life when seen through the heart’s full lens
Will reveal contexts that otherwise hide;
To a closed mind they appear like nonsense
But one day through facts they’ll be verified.
Some things that seemed to be an offence
Are an offence only to the rigidified;
Some that seemed real become pretence
When eventually exposed by time and tide.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

AGAIN AND AGAIN

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The Heart does not forget overnight
Sometimes it needs more than one lifetime
To forget the way back to the Light
And the echo of the last Grail Bell’s chime

Again and again it reads the Message
Again and again it feels the pull of the Call
But the gains and pains of the Modern Age
Make it time and again slowly forget it All.

A sad day it is time and time again
When a soul rises again from its deathbed,
And all it’s relatives’ tears and pain
Will be nothing compared to its own regret.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

NO OTHERS

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I stopped wanting others
After I met you -
And I still don’t want any others
Even after I’ve lost you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

PEOPLE SAY ALL SORTS

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When people insist
I love you more
Put them to the test
They won’t love you anymore

When people claim
I don’t love you anymore
Treat them the same
They’ll love you once more

Don’t base everything
On just what people say
People will say anything
Just to get through another day

Everybody wants happiness
But not everyone really knows
How to get that happiness -
We’re all searching and it shows.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE JOURNEY OF YOUR “I”

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The miracle of life transcends the earth.
The adventures of the “I”
Survive many an earthly death and rebirth
And a “Beyond” not in the Sky
But right here beside you
And much too often beneath you.
Your Journey is shaping the Real you.

This is really the purpose of it all -
Not the Earthly but the Spiritual,
the true inner personality,
you the actual person, you, you, you!
Eternity requires integrity,
and self-conquest is our path thereto
in the struggle with the Material.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river