Something has changed –
Experiences and the reflection
Thereupon have rearranged
My priorities and direction.
I no longer feel estranged
In the midst of strangers –
For I have found my own kind
And we are of one mind
In the face of the world’s dangers.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
How deep is homogeneity?
Does the colour of our skin
Express our similarity
Or mask the differences within?
How deep is nationality?
Does the passport we share
Stamp an ideological ethnicity
Or is it convenience out of fear?
Some plant gardens of roses
Some love lilies alone
Another meadow composes
A bouquet of everyone
Who can say rose gardens
Are prettier than plains
That lilies alone gladden,
Or a field that all contains?
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 