How many lives did you need
To come alive in this one?
How many graves are marked
With those names
Which you will never know again
Never bear again?
Countless and faded.
Death, that great equalizer
Will remix your cards again
So before your life be lived in vain
Make something good of this birth this time.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
How maddening it must be
Upon reincarnation to see
The fullness of your memory
In all its grime and glory –
Take it away, take it away
I don’t want to know today
The sadness and joy of yesterday
With my heart let me find my way
I fell in love, in love anew
With dawn and dusk, with dream and dew
With life and love, through vice and virtue
Another me, another you.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 