He was going to the right place, but for the wrong reason. So he stopped himself and started going to the wrong place, but for the right reason. Then his helpers stopped him and pointed him back to the right place. Now he’s gone to the right place again, but this time for the right reason. And rightness was fulfilled.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
How something so good Can just suddenly spoil You would be so surprised What’s hidden in the soil. How success and fulfilment Can defy time and toil You would be so mortified What’s hidden in the soil. How the hand that loved Can suddenly recoil You would be so horrified What’s hidden in the soil. The human heart is a garden, A kitchen, a fertile soil And strange things happen When things come to the boil. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
Some promises are made without words. But they are there. They are transmitted from heart to heart, and the heart understands what has been given, received, taken, reciprocated and shared.
Such promises are easy to break and deny, but hard to bear or forget or ever make good again. Because what was not spoken with words or broken with words cannot be repaired with words.
The deepest promises are silent and are the litmus test of the truthfulness of our character and the trustworthiness of our personalities and the purity of our hearts.
And then when the words then follow, they seal in stone what has already permeated the air and the heart.
Be mindful of the promises you make, whether spoken or unspoken, be honest to yourself and fulfil – or break honestly – what you have promised within yourself.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
Mein Herz sehnt sich wie ein Flugzeug drängend durch die Wolken stürmisch eilig RaumZeit brechend dem Fingerzeig der Liebe folgend, fühlend sich heimisch nur in Leidenschaft und in Erregung, noch mehr in Empfindung und in Bewegung, sehnt sich nach authentischer Erfüllung, nach Wirklichkeit und nach Veredelung - und startet wieder neu nach jeder Landung. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
There are things that other people can do a hundred times and get away with it. But if you do it just once, you will get caught or it will stay with you for the rest of your life. If another person doesn’t catch you, your conscience catches you and makes you pay for it from that moment until the day you die. To stop it you’ll have to kill your conscience, in which case you die a deeper death. So, in order to live, you have to live with it. You have no choice but to bear it and mature through it. Just for something you did just once.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
Travel light For the road has all you need But pack right - The important things - and Godspeed. Have a good flight. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
These games that we play, and think it’s just fun, they can really damage people. And by the time we start to suspect the damage we have done and start to pull back, it’s already too late and the victims are left reeling and wounded for the rest of their lives or for a very long time afterwards. These games of hearts, of love and sex, and of adventures, of selfish desires and of fun.
Sometimes we think we’re just expressing ourselves, or just seeking the meaning of life, or just getting out of life everything that it has to offer, or just doing what “everybody else” does, or just living life to the full, or just making sure we don’t die one day with regrets in our hearts of the things we left undone, or simply assuaging our own personal propensities, or even getting back at someone, or maybe trying to experience for ourselves how something feels, or just having some harmless fun.
I used to think that the things I would one day regret the most are the things I left undone, the opportunities I missed because I did not try to get them. But now I realise that the pain and regret that comes from doing certain things is even worse, and is real, and stays with you. You can’t run away from them because it is real and something you actually did. And all the apologies in the world has not made them go away. The only consolation, if any, is that your heart has learned a deep lesson that should, hopefully, make you a better person for the rest of this life and also in your subsequent reincarnations on Earth. Hearts hurt for a very long time.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains
Wenn die Brise steif wird Wenn der Riese reif wird Wenn das Ende kalt wird Wenn die Wende alt wird Wenn das Herz zart wird Wenn der Schmerz hart wird Wende ich mich ab von Dir. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
Die Musik ist schön
wenn sie wenig macht
kaum zu hören
weder tanzt noch lacht
und sehr persönlich ist.
Und so sind die Menschen auch
die man wirklich braucht,
die in Dich hineingehen
und Dich innig verstehen
so wie Du bist.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 