ONCE

Don‘t think twice
It only comes once
Take it the first time
It is your last chance.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

HEAD

Feelings in red
Dealings in bed
Healings instead

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE CHANGE

When you extend your hand long enough
One day you pull it back.
No human heart is strong enough
To forever withstand rejection’s attack.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

LYING

When people lie
Their energy shouts Why
Even as their mouths deny.

In every human eye
There is a buried cry.

To lie is, a little, to die.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

COME INTO THE LIGHT

Come into the light
Here where Home is bright
Let us exchange insight
With the same intensity
With which we sometimes fight
Let Honesty be our Propensity
At the very Height
Of our Intimacy
It will feel right, it will feel so right
Without a shred of complacency.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

WE BELIEVED

When we were being deceived
We believed
And we received what we thought was inspiration
And conceived in what we thought was conviction
A reality based on our tricked imagination
And we achieved the illusion of home.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

ROMANCE

One Chance
One dance
That is romance

One glance
That is romance

Take it or lose it.
One chance to choose it.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

DREAM REALITY

And then I come out of the dream
And I can remember as much of it
As I can convert into reality.

And what I forget is not really forgotten –
It is buried in that deep part of my heart
That cannot find a foothold in the world.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE OPPOSITE

When they pull the ground out
From under your feet,
Grow wings and learn to fly.

When they hurt you,
They make you stronger,
Growing younger and younger
Everyday until you die.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

PRIZE

People who try to bring you down
Will see you rise -
Their thorns will turn into your crown,
That’s your prize.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river