Poems

AI CANNOT SATISFY

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AI
Cannot satisfy
The longing for reality
The thirst for humanity
It can only replicate duplicate
Reiterate concentrate elucidate
Our past in all its profusion
The sum of all our confusion
Neatly packaged in a way
That appeals to our Today
But it will not give us anything new.
The future is still the spirit’s purview.
If we want the new then we must
Do what we have in the past
Always done to grow: Let go of the past.
Raising the intuition above the intellect
We much reach deep within our depths
And pull the new out from ourselves
Because there is a magic that flows from Above
Into our Intuition, our secret treasure trove.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

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Hiding in plain sight
If you don’t want people to know you
Let them think they already know you
If you don’t want people to see you
Show them daily the you that is not you
They will be looking at you
But they will not see you

Conversely
You might be lonely
For the like-minded will be blindsided by you
And will not see you to connect with you
And what you do, they won’t know you’ve done
And when you go, they won’t know you’re gone
And when you die, nobody will miss you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

TIME MATTERS

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If there were no time
There would be no pleasure
For there would be no experiencing,
No piling up of inner treasure,
No maturing, no developing,
No struggle against which to measure
Growth, delicious, ever unfolding,
For eternity gained is the time spent.
If there were no time,
If Everything happened in one moment,
There would be no rhyme.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

DON’T BE DISTRACTED BY INSULTS

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Be ready to forgive insults
Even before they come
Knowing they will come
From children and adults
Who are a part of your way
For this too is a part of the way
You must travel to get results.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

YOUR HEART IS A CUP

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You will daily be given enough strength
To grapple with the challenges of the day.
Do you know that if you in focus don’t relent,
You can have many days in just one day?

How wonderful is God. WHAT is He indeed?
For Creation, His Work, is full of unfailing Magic -
Your harvest is ALWAYS the product of your seed.
Thus, to live without high drive and light-purpose is tragic.

There is a river, do you see it, or sense it?
We are always walking beside it. Our heart is a cup.
To water your flowers, you may draw water from it;
But if you stop watering your flowers, your river dries up.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

I CANNOT REMEMBER

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I cannot remember all the good I did
I cannot remember all the evil I did
People remind me

As you go through the world today
Be mindful of the things you say
And do to those who cross your way

People will remind you one day.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

COME CLOSER

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I don’t like to get too near to people
Because it pushes me far away from them;
When you get really close to the moon,
You see a gloomy rock, not a glowing gem.

Yet, courage!, wanderer, be bold of heart!
One who will find must seek everywhere,
Must brave the ugly to discover deep beauty
At the core of the things we love and fear.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

BEFORE YOU

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You always think you’re the first
When you are young,
How startling it is when you grow up
To realise you were wrong.

So many people before you
Have these same heights traversed -
Some recorded, many unrecorded,
Their stories long dispersed.

Tread the earth with humility,
O modern day human;
Stonehenge and Egypt’s pyramids
Transcend our acumen.

And when you are still young,
Be thankful as you add new value,
For you’re building on the foundation
Of all that came before you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE END NEVER ENDS

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The character of the end
One month passes
one year passes
10 years pass

Still no sight
no word
no message
No communication

That’s when it sinks in
That was really the end
He is gone
Gone for good.

The disappearance of friends
Ends are Not Trends
The heart never mends
The end never ends.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

CHANGE CHANGES CHANGE

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There is something about change
Once it starts, it is irreversible
The inexorable march is strange
Like a Divine verdict incontestable
You see it happening yet you cannot stop it
When you try to stop it you only develop it
Even faster and make yourself expendable.

There is something about change
It is is surreal. Unreal. It is strange.

Change changes the parameters of change
And never changes in the same way.
Change changes change
But never changes it in the same way.
And never stops changing.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river