RELATIONSHIP WITH REALITY

All I can tell you is this,
Never entertain liars in your life.
No matter how painful reality is,
Let the Truth always be your wife
Or husband. Not a human or a face
But Truth itself should be your true spouse,
Permanently nourishing you deep within you.
Not a building, not an edifice or a space
But the Truth itself should be your real house,
Permanently protecting you deep within you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

NEVER

Liars will always lie -
That is their truth.
Winners will always try -
Without expecting ruth.
Lovers will always laugh and cry -
That’s the secret of their youth.
A giver is a river that’ll never run dry.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THOSE WHO SEE THROUGH YOU

Good liars are used
To being believed
So they get confused,
Irritated, aggrieved,
When they meet someone
By whom their well-conceived
Lies, deception and con
Are not well-received;

Someone who sees through them deeply,
Like a radar, stubbornly and unerringly,
And refuses to be bought by them cheaply,
But demands the real them unsparingly.

The real them, the higher You,
The deeper fruit of your true history -
Be brave with me, trust me, be true.
Let that be our bond, and our mystery.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river