Sometimes you win back your freedom
And it feels so strange
Because nothing, not even freedom,
Is free from change.
A free child, wild and uncouth,
Is not afraid to tell the truth –
A growing, blossoming and free youth
Is not afraid to hear the truth –
A free adult, grown full of ruth,
Is not afraid to protect the truth.
They are all free
All three
But they all see
Differently.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
The distance from coast to coast Hurts the heart the most And the silence from ghost to ghost The heart is a strange host. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
One person’s content
Is another person’s form,
One person’s excellent
Is another person’s norm,
One person’s present
Is another person’s past,
The message you first sent
Got to the Person you love last.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner River
Before you hear the train You feel the wind; Before you feel the pain Your inner voice starts to softly sing. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
Kindness starts by Looking people in the eye And welcoming them whole Into your soul. Those who belong Will come into your gaze, Those whose hearts are wrong Will look sideways. I’m not just talking about The outer look - For the story inside will come out Of the soul’s book When honesty, sincerity and kindness Break through dishonest blindness. A kind gaze can be revealing too When the other person’s heart is not true. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
Not everyone who tries to kill you will succeed; Your heart might bleed and bleed and bleed and bleed But in the end you will find out you have simply been freed. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
There is a time to come
And a time to go
There is a time to stay
And a time to flow
There is a time to help
And a time to ignore
There is a time to open
And a time to close and lock the door.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
Do you see me, I don’t see me. Do you see you, I don’t see you. Do you see us, I don’t see us. Do you see them, I don’t see them. But do you see it, I see it. It is all I see. The objective, the goal The constructive’s soul. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
A little distance
A little resistance
A little dance
A little happenstance
A little chance
A little romance
Balance.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
People are like clothes Sometimes we change them Personalities are like clothes Sometimes we change them Consciousnesses are like clothes Sometimes we change them Places are like clothes Sometimes we change them Inwardly and outwardly For similar reasons And in between changing them We are naked. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
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