ONCE WE WERE LIGHT

20/07/2022 ~ Che ~ Leave a comment

Once we were light
But the world weighed us down
Drowned out our cry of resistance
And put a bandage over our eyes

A desperate cry for help
Before we fell silent
And started to look silently at our children
The way once our parents looked at us

Now we know what they were thinking:
Retain your magic! Retain your lightness!
Even as they said to us worriedly:
You have to learn to fit into the system –

Knowing it was not the way
But knowing no other way
Or knowing it but not having the heart
To push us off the cliff –

Because not everybody grows wings
When falling through the gap.
The generation gap.
Now we watch our children worriedly

Wanting them to become like us
And wanting them to stay themselves too.
Once we were light
But the world weighed us down.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

RELAY

08/07/202208/07/2022 ~ Che ~ Leave a comment

If every new generation
Rose up twice as high as the one before,
Humanity‘s elevation
Would see us soon knocking on heaven‘s door.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

BIG AND SMALL

28/06/202228/06/2022 ~ Che ~ Leave a comment

In this world
You have to be small
To be big.

Big people
Are made small
By the world’s smallness.

If you are too big
You are too big
To be seen.

If you are small
You are big enough
For the small.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

DIFFERENT

26/05/202226/05/2022 ~ Che ~ Leave a comment

To be vulnerable is to be honest.
To be honest is to be vulnerable.
To be different is to be vulnerable to be honest.
To be different is to be honest to be vulnerable.
It is a strange place to be everytime
No matter how many times you go there.
Each time it feels different.
It requires bravery everytime.
Even when you‘re familiar with it
Still you never get used to it.
Because it is different. Everytime.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Footsteps On The Sands Of Time

30/04/202230/04/2022 ~ Che ~ Leave a comment

Kwame, you would have turned 47 today, but that dream died a long time ago. You didn‘t even quite make it out of teenage.
But, brother, your few poems have long made it unto the pages of our hearts for all eternity, like footsteps on the sands of time.

Available on Amazon:
Footsteps On The Sands Of Time: (Poems)
– by Kwame Ekwueme Chukwumerije

My Third Passion

27/04/202227/04/2022 ~ Che ~ Leave a comment

Push yourself
That’s the best self-help
There is pleasure in release
Measure the mark and strike
It makes the blood run out disease
Warms the muscles
For the next days’ hustles
My thug passion is my third passion Working out my banger issues in the gym Controlled anger defuse
Rough dancing in my tough mansion
My thugz mansion

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
(Aka Teraka)

PIECES OF GROWTH

11/04/202213/04/2022 ~ Che ~ 2 Comments

Time comes in pieces -
Pieces of days
Pieces of nights
Pieces of weeks, of months, of years

Eternity does not come all at once
Or we would not enjoy it

It comes in pieces of seconds
Of minutes
Of hours

Eternity comes in pieces of moments
Moments of depth and pain
Moments of joy and experiencing
Of learning and growing and gain.

- Che Chidi Chukwumerije

LET THEM INTO YOUR HEART

04/03/2022 ~ Che ~ Leave a comment

Kindness to refugees
is salvation for humankind.
Because kindness is the refuge
for our broken humanity,
longing for healing.
Let them in
and into your heart.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije