POWER

All power belongs to God, and only to God. If power is given to you, then you are just temporarily a vessel through which power in part will seek to fulfil the Will of God.

If you try to wield power and to bend it to your own will, and use it solely in service of your own ego and volition, then it will turn against you and destroy you, even if this destruction only becomes obvious to you after you have left this earth and it is too late to stop or reverse your self-destruction via power.

This is the worst kind of destruction, the one that becomes visible only after you have left the earth. You will have to come again as a baby and live a new life, to attempt to painfully undo the errors of the former.

Power is a very strange thing. It is not what you think it is. It is not what you see or think that you are seeing. What you see as power, no matter how obvious or subtle it may be, is just a temporary vessel through which power seeks to fulfil the Will of God. For all power belongs to God.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

NOT MY EARTHLY, BUT MY HEAVENLY FATHER

What binds me to my earthly father is
Love, duty, gratitude, respect and admiration.

What binds me to my Heavenly Father is
Eternal life,
Eternal gratitude,
Eternal purpose,
Eternal faithfulness here and everywhere,
Now and forever.

Not my earthly – but my Heavenly – Father.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

ELEMENTARY MOTION

Primary motion, elementary rhythmn, pace, pattern and period is determined or established by the faithfully unceasing – i.e. constant – activity of Substantiality, driven by and helping to carry the driving force of the Will of God, expressed in the natural laws.

All WE do is detect and attempt to measure evidences of this primary rhythmn or elementary motion, and divine or devise (i.e. evolve under the pressure of reception) units with which to uniformly record, report and compute the results of these measurements.

That is, all we can do is adjust to nature, to Creation, and identify order within the pattern of our adjustments. And because there is order in nature, all successful attempts to adjust to nature will settle into orderly patterns, and all observations of those patterns will enable the devising of units of measurements and adherence with which to capture and/or fulfill this system of order.

Science reduces its recognition of this orderly system into equations that symbolise axioms, hypotheses and theorems. On the other hand, Religion breaks down its own recognitions into beliefs, creeds and dogmas. In essence, in which ever sense, all we capture, record, tabulate, systemise and express are our recognitions or assumptiosn based on our observations of elementary motion itself, to which we are subject and out of which, or out of the side effects of which, we emerged in Creation.

With the activity of our free will, we can lift ourselves up into regions of faster manifestation of elementary motion. Or we can also cause ourselves to densify and sink further away from the source of the driving force that powers what we experience, or what we detect, and believe to be primary – or a more primary state – of motion, i.e. we can also sink into regions and perceptions of a more sluggish elementary rhythmn. But the basic logic of elementary motion never changes and always yields uniform laws of motion expressed in the character of the plane being observed.

Elementary motion itsef is, or must be, an expression, or reflection, or vehicle, or echo, of primordial impulse or original life, eternal life, i.e. LIFE itself. An evidence of that GOD whose existence we sense but never can reach; the Origin of Eternity without beginning and without end.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

HAPPY PEOPLE

If you’re mad, and you know you’re mad, are you mad?
If you’re in heaven, and you’re not happy, are you in heaven?
If you have everything, and you’re empty, do you have anything?
If you have nothing, and you’re full, do you have nothing?

What’s the point in being able to explain the Laws of God to everybody, if you lack the courage to live the paths that will reveal yourself to you.

Some people have the courage to show you God, but they don’t have the courage to show you themselves. It is not God that is shrouded in strange mystery, it is the human being.

Don’t tell me about God – you can’t. Tell me about yourself. Show me who you really are. That’s difficult enough. But that’s the knowledge we reciprocally need, between and amongst ourselves, in order to be able to live happily with one another.

And happy coexistence, as ourselves, with ourselves: that is our Paradise.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

LOCKED INSIDE

There is one frozen lake
That thaws not in the spring
It is winter of wordless ache
In my awakening

In my beginning
After I awoke
I greeted the earth and forgot
The language Creation spoke

Before the big bang
And ding dong merrily on high
Once upon a time
After a bell rang

Before the big bang
A song my spirit sang
Song of flame
In tongue of flame.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

SUCCESS AND FAILURE

She had a promising career ahead
Of her but she lost that fire
And whether or not she found herself instead along the way
Is a subject of debate amongst her
Observers. She is different of late –

And then we all sat down and spoke again
About What is truly the Aim of Life.
Career? Money? Power? Fame? Or the search for God?…
Peace of mind? Is it mental and physical health? –
Love? Family? Travel? And experiencing?

Because we all go out the same way we came in
With hearts full of hopes and regrets.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

COMPANY

Through this last stretch
Of lonely days
This last patch of watered fields
Although the mountains be now in sight
Need I some company
To make easier the journeying
And ease a bit my lonesome sorrow
That I by pain be not too distracted
From that alertness
That be my sworded shield…

So keep me company
Dear Muse
From here to Kingdom Come.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

INTERSECULAR

Like a cow
Eschewing its thoughts
The worship bells
Choked my throat
Penned me to my pagy leaf

Sunday mournings
Have my sins been so many?
Stop confessing guiltily
What you profess so
Guiltlessly.

Monday is the new Sunday.
If you want to meet God,
Look for Him on Monday –
On Sunday, Saturday and Friday He is far far away,
Tired of our hypocrisy.

-Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

WARM

There is something about Christmas
Even in places where it is cold, it is warm
Those without electricity bring light to each other
Drought and famine cannot destroy the bread of life
War will not make us forget that we are one human family
And the rich will not be happier than the poor –
There is a light that brought warmth upon this earth
If the cold of loneliness grips your heart this year
May Christmas touch you and make you warm.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

I wrote this poem as part of an interview published in Sabine’s Lifestyle-Kolumne. The body of the interview is however in german, but it can be read here.
*Aka Teraka was my pseudonym.