Weiche nicht zurück
Wenn ich schiebe, umarme mich
Verliere nicht die Hoffnung
Wenn meine Fußabdrücke blass werden
In Deinem Herzen kennst Du den Weg
Mein Berg bist Du, meine Eiche, und mein Meer..
Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
UDO KA
Udo ka
Udo echi
Maka
Ụwa taa
Bụ ụwa agha
Na ụwa mmebi.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
GOODBYE – WELCOME
ONCE UPON A time three ants ran across a wall. They all got crushed by the same hand and died. The hand put itself into food and fed the mouth, and the owner of hand and mouth died because the ants were rare and poisonous. Those who buried the corpse fell ill and died too because the poison was spreading. Nobody buried them. Birds of prey fed on them and later fell down dead from the sky. Goats and cows fed on the grass near the dead birds and, before they died, men drank of their milk; the goats and cows died and the disease was back in the lives of men.
People were dying left and right everyday. From where had this unknown disease come? Where was it headed? Would it move on and leave us alone or would it stay or would it take us along?
But there was a breed of people who did not die, against whom the poison held no sting, in whose land the power of the disease was broken. And all those who knew, or found, and walked the way into their land, this inner state of being, overcame the death that lives through our folly.
Goodbye.
Welcome.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
UNITED
If love is like this all the time
Then love is magic; and love and time
Are one.
So let it keep rolling, flowing, growing
When it doth snow, let it keep snowing
Until it’s done.
Because underneath the melting snow blanket
A new beginning of our love forms, and bank on it
We’ll still be one
When it’s done.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
SIMPLE SIM ON LOVE
Simple Simon
made a rhyme on
something on his mind:
If God is love,
all else above,
then how can love be blind?
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
HALLO, SONNE
Du stehst hinter mir
Eine Eins
Die Sonne, die ich kannte
Sie war nur Morgendämmerung
Here comes the sun –
Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
FIELDS OF LIGHT
In fields of light above this realm
Where sight and sound are one
I chanced upon a little elm
A woman sat upon
From far afar I sharp’d my eyes
To peer good at this sight
And soon came I to see thread-ties
‘Tween her and the High Light
She sat so still, she did not stir
Or so it seemed to me
‘Til I was no more far, but near
And then began to see
Than in her hand she held a flute
The longest yet I’ve seen
Which stretched gently until its root
Her small lips was between
And she it was who through her sounds
Was forming all these fields
Of beauteous light where joy abounds
And my heart rapture yields
These fields of light I long have passed
Yet never will forget
That those blessed hills, meads, groves were massed
But through that simple set
Of flute and woman weaving music
Healing broken hearts
And forming fields of light of scenic
Beauty for these parts.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
INTO THE SECOND CALM
A period of difficulty, well endured with reflection and honesty, will awaken calm within the soul. Calm brings clarity.
If you continue to rise higher while calm, you will one day break into a second world of utter confusion which jumps upon you just when your calm reaches its peak. This second confusion is the most difficult path, because it confounds your new knowledge and laughs at your newfound calm. At its height, you will lose all hope.
If, however, you remain calm, even in the heart of your confused hopelessness and hopeless confusion, something New will awaken within and overtake you, and set you free, reborn. Because from the valley the next step is upwards, provided you have not first buried yourself in dejection in the valley.
Even when there is no hope, yet continue to hope. Even when you are broken, and rebroken, yet trust in life. – And you shall enter into the Second Calm. And, come what may, nothing and nobody can take away this Calm from you, because it is the other side of pain, where spirit dies no more.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AROUND YOU?
Music made me
A bird saved me
A smile undid me
A woman slew me
A friend betrayed me
And I dug myself out of the Grave.
A wound bled me
A sword healed me
A dream baffled me
A heart became me… became I…
A Call reached me
Here, there and everywhere –
Now, tell me
If you understand humanity yet?
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
WISDOM
Wisdom. To see the limitations of others, and see the limitations in myself which stop me from seeing the limitations in others.
Wisdom. To accommodate the faults of others, and to accommodate the faults in myself which prevent me from accommodating the faults in others.
Wisdom. To understand the confusion of others, and understand the confusion in myself which blocks me from understanding the confusion in others.
Wisdom. To fathom foolishness, and fathom that which can never fully fathom the foolishness of man.
Wisdom. To be aware of my ignorance, and of my knowledge, and of the difference between the two.
Wisdom. Lord, make me wise in Thine Ways. Amen.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
