of Subtle Strokes

SOMETIMES JUST LET IT BE

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Don‘t ask what you don’t really want to know. Don’t confirm what you already sense or even know, but are not really interested in knowing. Let things be and leave yourself unburdened and uncluttered and buoyantly light, and focus on only what is really important. Let people tell and keep their lies and falsehoods and secrets without you piercing it with the sword of your questions or lifting the fog with the knowingness of your words. Let them keep on carrying that weight, if it is what they desire, and let it continue to twist and distort them, if it means so much to them. Separate yourself from that chaos and from that filth and remain unburdened, light and free. Sometimes, leave people alone in their personal inner struggle. Just send up a prayer for them and walk away. They too deserve to walk their path of development in peace.

It is not important to confirm everything one senses or to reveal everything one knows; it is not important to expose every lie. It is not important to voice every thought one has concerning a person. If it is a matter that plays no active role in your life, or does not gravely affect something to which you are morally or loyally beholden, you may want to leave it be and pass it by. And if it is something from which you can detach yourself, no matter how much essential importance it once seemed to hold in your life, then pull yourself away from it and walk away. You don’t have to tell it why, if it is pretending not to know why. And you don’t have to expose the lie it wants to keep secret, unless it really affects you and plays a role in your life. If not, let it be and simply detach yourself and move on. It is not necessary for people to know everything you know about them. Wisdom and maturity lie in silence, when words are unnecessary.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

RELOCATION

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Where do you live?
In your head.
Where do you spend the most time?
In your head.
Where do you hold the most conversations?
In your head.
With whom?
With yourself, through the agency of your thoughts..

Where should you live?
In your heart.
Where should you spend the most time?
In your heart.
Where should you hold the most conversations?
In your heart.
With whom?
With God, through the agency of your inner voice.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE TRUE SIZE OF THINGS

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There Are Moments when a small thing is a big thing, and there are moments when a big thing is a small thing. Be attentive and know the difference.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

HUMAN DIGNITY

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Whatever you take from people,
Try not to take away their dignity –
It is what makes us human. Simple.
Human dignity is a kind gift from Divinity.
Preserve it as much as you can
In every child, in every man, in every woman,
It confirms to us that we are human.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

CLARITY

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A lot of our time is taken up by the attempt to make ourselves comprehensible to others and to understand them in return. If you listen to any conversation between any two people, you will notice just how much TIME is used up by the effort to transfer information from one to the other. They try multiple words and many different phrases. They repeat the same thing over and over again, with the same and different words.

They ask many questions, sometimes the same question several times, and explain themselves multiple times. All in the attempt to make themselves understood to one another, to transfer the exact and correct piece of information that each carries within to and into the other person’s inside and into the other person’s comprehension capacity. Most of our interactions are a long arduous twisting marathonic endeavour at communication, often ending in only partial success or really no real success at all.

But imagine if there was a way to instantly and accurately transfer exact information between ourselves and into one another. Exact, and above all comprehensible, information. Directly – from mind to mind, from heart to heart, from intuition to intuition. How much time would be saved? And how much misunderstanding would be avoided. So much. This is probably why the best communicators do so with pictures or use words that awaken images within the recipient’s mind. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, they say. But a picture can also be misinterpreted, if the context is not properly explained. It all depends. And that’s the whole point.

And yet… is the effort to communicate not an intrinsic part of the very purpose of existence? Is is not the one side of the coin of consciousness with which we pay and earn our development? And the other side of the coin is the effort to bring clarity within one’s own inner life. Because the more you try to make something comprehensible to another, the clearer it becomes to you too. And the clearer it becomes to you, the easier it is to communicate it to someone else, sometimes with just one mental picture awakened within them that brings intuitive comprehension and intellectual clarity.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

HEALING QUIETLY

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It‘s quiet inside
Grown silent in a heart
Of memories rich in restraint
A talking drum a world apart
It takes a village to raise a child
It takes a community to heal an inner child
And silence in a quiet place in your heart.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

DIFFERENT KINDS

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There are different kinds of friends
They connect in different ways
There are different kinds of bends
They connect with different ways
There are different kinds of trends
They connect into different ways
There are different kinds of ends
They disconnect and you go different ways
And then they connect you to different ways.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

LYING

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When people lie
Their energy shouts Why
Even as their mouths deny.

In every human eye
There is a buried cry.

To lie is, a little, to die.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

PRIZE

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People who try to bring you down
Will see you rise -
Their thorns will turn into your crown,
That’s your prize.

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