Horrible to him
Wonderful to me
Ugly to day
Beautiful to night
I see with eyes
That see surprise
I hear with ears
That hear falling tears
I see the woman
Being human
I love the human
Being in the woman
I know your value
I know the worth
Of your old-fashioned Virtue
Pretty or not,
You’re beautiful.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Fear not the Ides of March
Go boldly your path to the end
What’s unclear today, another Plutarch
Will explain one day again
Fear not the Ides of March
Fear is the foe of your nature
Your feet it’ll drag, tongue it’ll patch –
Heed not every Seer or Preacher
Fear not the Ides of March
Though your friends turn into traitors
Or family conspirators, sly and arch,
Join and jubilate with your tribulators
Fear not the Ides of March
Death cannot upturn your victory
Tough as larch and strong as starch
Shall eternally inspire your Story.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
15.03.2019
If you’re mad and you know you’re mad
Are you mad?
If you’re sad and you know you’re sad
Why don’t you smile?
If you’re bad and you know you’re bad
Then you know what’s good –
If you’re glad and you know you’re glad
Share it and make someone else smile.
Life is going by so quick
Not just the individual life of you and me
Sometimes one has this strange feeling
That humankind itself also
Won’t be here forever
Our species too will die out
Inspite – or because – of all our great knowledge.
One by one, we will bury each other
And after the last sister has buried her last brother
Her final prayer before she too quietly departs
Will be that God forgive all our human hearts
For not understanding on time
That only Love furnishes the perfect last rhyme.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Very soon I might have to drop
Half of the things I’m into
In order to find enough time
To do the things I really mean to
The years fly past on fast forward
And everyday I feed the beasts that are eating me
Sometimes I need to stop, check and be sure
If it’s angels or demons that are leading me
Politics and society, belief, love and money
The five names of the very same monster
How long can Reincarnation remain on Auto-repeat
Futilely yelling I came, I saw, I conquered?
So give me that filter, I’ll separate
The misses I’ll regret from all the rest
Even as I wonder if it’s already too late
Before Death comes to pass the test.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
One of the most beautiful things
I have found
Is to be able to let go of the past
And move on –
But never forget the past.
I love every pain
Every joy
Every regret and remorse
Every parting and every loss
Every victory and every memory
For by the very act of going
They left something with me
That will live in me forever…
Forever is a land of goodbyes
And new beginnings.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
If you want to know people
Observe how they are
When they don’t have to be kind
To get what they want
When they don’t need to be nice
To secure their existence
When they don’t have to put up a show
Of strength or weakness
To protect their safety and preserve their advantage
When they have you in their power
Within the boundaries of their Circle of influence
On their sovereign soil
At their mercy
This is when you know a people
This is when you know a human being
When they have the opportunity to do anything with you
And get away with it
This is when you know yourself –
When you have the opportunity to do something
And get away with it.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
What if Rosa Parks had got up from her seat?
What if Churchill had agreed to negotiate with Hitler?
Sometimes even when you are down
Still you must refuse to bow down.
What if Dundee had not pushed out Clay in Round 5 against Liston?
What if Ali had kept his belt and gone to Vietnam?
Sometimes you have to face your opponent blindfolded, because that moment is your destiny and you just have to fight on.
To resist evil, no matter what
To do the right thing, no matter what
To stand to your conviction, no matter what
To keep on fighting, no matter what
A thousand years are as one day
And the way seems to last forever
Sometimes, like now, I feel so strange to myself
As if I were someone else
Somewhere else far far away
Awakening inside me
And, even though I don’t understand it
I just have to let it continue
To take over me,
No matter what.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Energy does not help you to get up
But getting up helps you to get energy
Which in turn helps you to get higher up
You cannot have wisdom before you travel
You need to travel to acquire wisdom
Which in turn makes you a better traveller
Before you know, you cannot believe
It is knowledge that births belief and conviction
Which in turn opens up the way to higher knowledge
And what is the point of this recognition?
Ignorance and weakness are not an excuse
Just start with what you have
And what you need will come to you.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Don‘t give up because the first step was not perfect and the critics have only zoomed in on the weak areas.
Rejoice because you took the first step at all and your journey has now started.
Rejoice because you know what you did right and what you did wrong, so you know what to work on and what to improve.
Rejoice because you have feedback and critics and cheerleaders.
Rejoice because you have the one thing that everybody wants, but only few possess – Courage.
It is courage that gets to distant goals, not criticism. Because courage has legs and is very restless. And the only thing that makes courage happy, and satisfies courage, is movement; is overcoming challenges.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
It‘s strange how what we call deep Love ends so quickly, and what we call just Friendship lasts and lasts and lasts.
It‘s funny how love affairs come and go, but Friendships remain and grow.
It‘s interesting how the things that touch the body can become uninteresting tomorrow, but the things that focus only on the spirit will always understand you and always be there.
Many people are more loyal to their friends than to their partners. Ever wondered why?
Many people are more open to their friends than to their partners. It causes some people pain, and yet some will defend it with their lives.
Many people feel misunderstood by their partners, but are deeply understood by their friends – and often wonder why they cannot find both in one.
Friendship is a treasure, a gift, a blessing, a wonderful wonderful bond. Treasure your friends, for you will have only few. And if you have a partner, may he or she be one of them.
When all else is dead and dark, and all hope is gone, true Friendship will show you the way back Home to Paradise.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
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