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THE HEART, INTENSELY, INTIMATELY

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When intimacy does not satisfy, then integrity, dignity and honesty need to climb into bed with you. Because intimacy alone will not make you feel at home, safe and fulfilled. Only honesty will do that. Reciprocal honesty and truth – the soul of trust and integrity, the pillars of respect and dignity.

Stay with people that respect you enough to tell you always the truth,no matter what that truth is – those that honour you with their honesty. Honesty is an expression of trust and of respect, and of love.

But the heart, oh the heart is treacherous. It will go where it knows it’s not wanted, where it knows it’s not respected, where it knows it is not valued or respected, where it knows it is not really loved in return. For some strange reason the heart will long for the person that will abuse it, lie to it, break it and cause it pain. And no matter how much you try to hold the heart back from the path of punishment, it will insist and it will go there, like a masochist. And it will not be satisfied until it has been broken open.

Because the heart longs for nothing more than to be opened again. Open Sesame. To experience from the depth of its core. And to grow. The heart wants to live and to feel alive. And once it has been opened by pain, then it does not need the pain or the pain-makers anymore. All it wants now is joy and light and love. The heart wants to be happy, from deep within.

And when the Heart has found happiness, it shuns Lies and dishonesty henceforth, and desires only truthfulness and the company of those with whom it can share Honesty, because honesty is the purest form of intimacy.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

ES GIBT GEFÜHLE

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Es gibt Gefühle,
sie entstehen abends -
Es gibt Gefühle,
sie verschwinden abends -
Es gibt Gefühle,
sie machen nur abends Sinn -
Es gibt Gefühle,
sie verlieren abends ihren Sinn.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

HOW MANY

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How many people are you?
I’m two.
If you don’t see me through
You won’t know who’s talking to you.

Some people I see
Are three
Dealing with them you have to be
Relating with all three
Simultaneously.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

AN DIE NACHT

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Es ist sehr hell -
Ist das wirklich die Nacht?
Es ist sehr dunkel -
Ist das wirklich die Nacht?

Die Nacht ist heller als der Tag
Und dunkler auch -
Ist alles, was ich liebe und was ich mag,
Ist ein Gefühl im Bauch.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

(NOT) YOURS

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When it’s no longer yours
It doesn’t hurt if someone else has it,
It only hurts as long as it’s still yours
And someone else has it.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

ANTIKLIMAX

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Ich hätte es nicht geglaubt
Aber ich habe es überlebt:
Der Verlust eines Erhofften,
Das ich einst habe angestrebt.

Die Enttäuschung
liegt in der Tatsache,
daß die Enttäuschung
so enttäuschend enttäuschend ist,
und nicht mal richtig schön enttäuschend
sondern einfach leer.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

CHOOSE

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The Person I choose
Has to choose me too
In order for me to choose them
There is no us without you
Only me.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

ERGREIFE DEN MOMENT

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Es gibt immer den Moment,
Da musst Du Mut fassen und ihn erfassen -
Zögerst Du, verlierst Du den Zug,
Und die Chance wird Dich wieder verlassen.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

RELATIONSHIP WITH REALITY

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All I can tell you is this,
Never entertain liars in your life.
No matter how painful reality is,
Let the Truth always be your wife
Or husband. Not a human or a face
But Truth itself should be your true spouse,
Permanently nourishing you deep within you.
Not a building, not an edifice or a space
But the Truth itself should be your real house,
Permanently protecting you deep within you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

PUT YOUR HEART INTO EVERYTHING YOU DO

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Sometimes, many things you do you do it because you just don’t care. People think you do it, and do it that way, because you don’t know how to do it or you don’t know what to do.

They don’t know that you simply really just don’t care if it works or not, because it is not what you really want. You’re just doing it out of boredom and because it is available, and because you just have to do something to while away the time while you’re waiting for what you really want.

But that thing you really want, that thing you are waiting for, might never ever come.

So, why don’t you do well what you’re doing now; because in the end it might be the only thing you ever really got to do.

Love, put your heart into everything you do.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains