Broken Trust

TIME AND DEEDS

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Only happiness can defeat sadness
Only honesty to oneself can defeat madness
Only goodness can defeat badness

Mirroring darkness is not our business
Rather for the Light we bear witness
And learn gradually to feel forgiveness

At a point words become meaningless
Whether we speak more or speak less
We’ll misunderstand each other nevertheless

Only time and deeds and steadfastness
Only consistency in human friendliness
Only self-control and gentlemanliness

Will grant our hearts again to each other access.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije 
Poems from the inner river

SCAR TISSUE

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Deliver the message poignantly
Like an ugly scar that tenderly hurts
Memorising the wound visibly
And then they accumulate
Like a conversational give and take
And talk to each other eloquently
Saying more than the words they take back
Opening up the distance irreversibly.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river