Flower needs earth
Or water
Or tree
Flower needs something
To grow on.
Flower without base
Is an idea without implementation.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
idea
TENDERLY
I hold you tenderly
Like a precious thought
I sparingly share
Only with strangers
For they know not its worth
Will not rob me of it or its meaning or
Crush it to death like a writer
Crushes an idea in his mind –
Might be a butterfly
Might be a petal
Might be a story that would have changed minds –
Gone, unwritten, unspoken, unshared.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
THE IDEA, NOT THE PERSON
Those who subscribe to an idea
Usually flock around one
Who embodies that idea
The leader is the one whose activity
Awakens or keeps alive in the others
The spirit of the goal, and the belief
That the goal will be attained.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 