RAIN MUST DROP

No raindrop stops in the middle of the sky
Once it has left the cloud, it must reach the ground
And there it shatters to pieces to quietly lie
In the arms of the new old home it has found.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

BEWARE OF ECHO CHAMBERS

Beware of echo chambers.
People who speak your thoughts
Will soothe your loneliness
But won’t show you your blind spots.

Listen also to those people
Who see you completely differently
From how you see yourself.
Completion seems sometimes unfriendly.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river