WORLDS

As I travel the world outwardly, I also travel through myriads of inner worlds inwardly.

Within short periods, I interact with people of different mentalities, characters, backgrounds, histories, personalities and inner worlds; people whose inner lives are often completely different from mine but sometimes also extraordinarily similar to mine.

And I’ve learned one thing. It is not the outer world that is big and vast; it is the inner world that is vaster and more diverse than the universe. But it is also that same inner world that is the smallest, most singular and most undifferentiated space in all of creation.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

OUR MINDS

Boarding another person’s
Train of thoughts…
What a ride.
Places and passengers of all sorts -
It’s hard to know
At which station to jump off
Before you go mad
Without missing all the good stuff.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Poems from the inner river