Never tell people who you really are:
If they’re deep enough, they’ll find out by themselves.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems
THE INTUITION
Many thousand years have passed
And many thousand more will too
But when it’s over you will see
That the lies still have not changed the truth
Intellect will build a ship
That will fly to distant stars
But only intuition will know
What makes human beings happy
What makes human hearts happy..
Believe that you can make a change
Then spend your life trying
Speak your mind and be free
Before dying
Because the intellect will find a cure
For every sickness on this earth
But only the Intuition will know
What makes human beings happy
What makes human hearts truly happy..
It’s irrelevant if the seeds you sow
Do not yield fruit in your lifetime
It doesn’t mean a thing if no-one applauds
As long as deep within, you touch the happiness
Of having been true to yourself.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
MOCKERY THEIR WEAPON
Once they used chains
Once they used Whips
Once they used Dogs
Once they used knives and guns
Now they use mockery
Because they have seen that all those things
Did not provide a final solution
To the verdure of your tenacious Proliferation
For you sprout from within
They will weight the System against you
But it will not hold you down completely
Yet it will mock you
They will twist the law against you
But it will not hold you down completely
Yet it will mock you
Mock you and ridicule you and make you small they will
Because as long as you are small
You cannot build, or run, a big House.
It’s not your body they want to kill
It is your Spirit.
Do not believe the hype,
Racism is still alive and well.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
SHOW YOUR FACE
Most bloggers are reluctant to show their face. The reasons are varied.
But I decided to show mine – not just my inner face, but also the outer one. By doing so, it was as if I had rid myself of a protective cover – only to realise that I don’t need one.
I like to meet the world directly, openly, face to face.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
KNOWING
Ignorance is bliss
Yet I choose torture
Nature left a space
For growth via Nurture
Pain is the price I gladly pay
To be at home in my own Skin
The sadness is without
The Lion is within.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
FREE MARKET
So why is it that
Only one person is buying
And only one person is selling…
Only one person is making
And only one person is slaving
Only one person is thinking
And only one person is sleepwalking
If the market is free
Why does Africa chain itself
Down? If you don’t make anything
You’ll never own a thing
A free market is not enough to
Free a continent –
Only a free mind can
And free thinkers
Who have freed themselves from
Unimagination and rigidity and
Small parochial selfishness.
Only such can free their People
From the chains of a free market
Where might is still right
And freedom is not given for free.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
THE RELIGION OF MUSIC
For a long time, decades,
I forgot about the power of music
I stopped believing that music can
Change the world.
It is easy to stop believing it
Because many people also do not really believe it
And so everywhere around you, people agree with you
In a gentle cynical sad way
But there is something greater than belief
It is Knowledge. Memory. New experiencing –
Conviction. Re-cognition. It comes upon you when music
Changes your world and brings you back to life
Inside you again –
This is what Music does to everything.
Then you become a believer again
And a disciple and a missionary of
The Religion of Music.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
SHADES OF CHE
Musik & Poesie / Music & Poetry
You are all welcome.
Afrobeat. Pop-Rock.
Slow and fast. Hard and soft.
And lots of poetry.
English/Deutsch
14th Feb 2018
Frankfurt am Main
Summa Summarum
21:30h
ALREADY
The person who outwardly leaves you today
Already inwardly left you yesterday.
And the person who outwardly comes to you today
Already inwardly came to you yesterday.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
PRUDENCE
Discretion and guardianship of the tongue are the measure of a man‘s inner strength and level of maturity and, ultimately, worth.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
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