Of Virtues

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

HOMEWORK

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We have to become beautiful
Inside and outside
And stop roaming the earth full
Of shame and pride
Looking for a Paradise
That is ours and ours alone to make -
Until we arise
At home, our success abroad is fake.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

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Beautiful women
Come from the land of within
And lead you back up
Into the land of within
And when they beautify
The world within you
You feel you’re In Paradise
In your world
And when they beautify you
In your inner world
You feel beautiful
And you become beautiful
In every other world.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

VICISSITUDES

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I never knew there was so much love
In the world until I was down;
I never knew there was so much hate
In the world until I wore a crown.

You just have to accept humanity the way it is;
People will surprise you with their love and their hate;
People will surprise you with betrayal and with loyalty;
A thousand changes everyday will be your fate.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

INNER ALIVENESS

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The aim of life
Is to be inwardly alive –
Inwardly mobile
Like a child.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

FREEDOM CHANGES

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Sometimes you win back your freedom
And it feels so strange
Because nothing, not even freedom,
Is free from change.

A free child, wild and uncouth,
Is not afraid to tell the truth –
A growing, blossoming and free youth
Is not afraid to hear the truth –
A free adult, grown full of ruth,
Is not afraid to protect the truth.

They are all free
All three
But they all see
Differently.

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

KINDNESS IS HARD TOO

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Kindness starts by
Looking people in the eye
And welcoming them whole
Into your soul.

Those who belong
Will come into your gaze,
Those whose hearts are wrong
Will look sideways.

I’m not just talking about
The outer look -
For the story inside will come out
Of the soul’s book
When honesty, sincerity and kindness
Break through dishonest blindness.

A kind gaze can be revealing too
When the other person’s heart is not true.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE MATTER

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Do you see me,
I don’t see me.

Do you see you,
I don’t see you.

Do you see us,
I don’t see us.

Do you see them,
I don’t see them.

But do you see it,
I see it. It is all I see.

The objective, the goal
The constructive’s soul.

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