Poems

ALERTNESS

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Be present
In the moment
Or when your moment comes
You will be absent
In it.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

DEJA VU

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Is the future
a story we read in the past
and forget in the present?

Or is tomorrow
a story we wrote yesterday?
and life is reading it back to us today.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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WEAKNESS

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The greatest strength
is the strength to look beyond
your own strength
and find in your weakness
strength in other people’s strength.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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EACH IS OTHER

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Life is made up of many realities
living next to each other

They are not pretending
to get along with each other

They think they are getting along
with each other

And so they do. Coexist.
Mainly unaware of each other.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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DESTINATION UNCERTAIN

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The earth is not just carrying us
We are carrying the earth too
We attract each other with gravitational forces
Where are we carrying the earth to?

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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MIND THE MOMENT

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Your time will always pass
And it will pass at a time
Least convenient to you
Just as it came at a time
Not quite expected by you
And lasted for a length of time
Unappreciated by you.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

RECALIBRATION

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When you don‘t know
what to throw away and what to keep
When you don‘t know
when it‘s time to laugh and when to weep
When you can‘t tell
if you’re wide awake or fast asleep
When you can‘t tell
the difference between shallow and deep
any longer
like you could when you were younger
and materially weaker but spiritually stronger
then you need again to reconnect
with your original and most honest hunger
For the inner voice of your deepest hunger
Is always correct.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

LISTEN

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Always hear the unsaid when people talk;
Perceive the noise in the silence.
See the hidden stumble in their walk;
Read the unwritten hope for peace
Even in their threats of violence.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

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LIGHTRISE

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When more than the sun rises
And more than the moon is full
When enlightenment itself materialises
Upon and within your soul

When you awaken in the deepest sense
And the light of your spirit fills your eyes
Then shall you experience
The dawn of the morning Lightrise.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

ROCK STARS

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Did the sun give birth to the earth?
And the earth to the moon?
Is the moon childless?
What are we doing here
On this strange rock
In the middle of billions and billions
Of other strange rocks?

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije