When I’m down You give me strength Atheists say You don’t exist But You lift me up when I’m depressed And calm me down and give me rest How can I express my gratitude? Nothing I am or give or do Can come close to repaying You For being so faithfully kind and merciful Your Kindness is my sole inspiration Your goodness os deserving of imitation Your fidelity to rightness is a lesson In integrity, severity mixed with compassion People seek You in prayers and dogmas In churches, mosques, temples and likewise I seek You in Kindness and in Goodness In Bravery, in Purity, in Humility, always. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
Lord
EAGLE AT HEART
Sun-burnished
The sea slit
The morning lit up
Furnished my wit
The varnished mirror beneath me crawls
And over-yonder my sun it calls
Back tarnished memory bit by bit.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
WISDOM
Wisdom. To see the limitations of others, and see the limitations in myself which stop me from seeing the limitations in others.
Wisdom. To accommodate the faults of others, and to accommodate the faults in myself which prevent me from accommodating the faults in others.
Wisdom. To understand the confusion of others, and understand the confusion in myself which blocks me from understanding the confusion in others.
Wisdom. To fathom foolishness, and fathom that which can never fully fathom the foolishness of man.
Wisdom. To be aware of my ignorance, and of my knowledge, and of the difference between the two.
Wisdom. Lord, make me wise in Thine Ways. Amen.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 