BIG AND SMALL

In this world
You have to be small
To be big.

Big people
Are made small
By the world’s smallness.

If you are too big
You are too big
To be seen.

If you are small
You are big enough
For the small.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

GREATNESS AND SMALLNESS

How great
Is the greatest man
If he cannot even carry a bucket of water
To his thirsty friend?
If he cannot even put a broom in his hand
And sweep the dustied driveway
With humility of heart?

How great
Is the greatest woman
If she cannot even say hello
To a person she deems to be a class lower?
If she cannot ignore the supposed mockery
Of soceity for the sake of a moment
Of truthfulness to herself?

How great is greatness
If it has no humility?

Even smallness
Is greater
Than such greatness.

– che chidi chukwumerije.