DUSKY

The wooded streets
heavy laden with evening tears
The dusk is wet with wanting
well within her weathered years
where everything longing meets
maturity already wears
with a battered beauty so haunting
for the bruises it softly bears.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Poems from the inner river

TWILIGHT HORIZON

Eternal sunset
Unending dusk
Rolled along the edge of the earth
Creased the Northpole and gave birth to
Eternal sunrise
Never-ending dawn
From dusk to dawn like a painted horizon
At twilight born by a giant drawn.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

THE SINGULARITY OF EVERY

There are many things
That seem to be the same
But are not

Just like dawn and dusk
Those two strangers
Who have a way of appearing similar

And yet have never met
Or seen
Nor ever will

Nor ever be the same.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.