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NATIVE

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NATIVE
from my album „First Nature“ (2016)

Che Chidi Chukwumerije (CH3)

NATIVE TO YOU

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God’s World is not foreign
It is indigenous
After you’ve finished touring
You return to us

God’s Law is not complex
It is very simple
Needs no super intelligence
To do the needful

God’s Love is not exotic
It is native
Homeliness is romantic
Non-invasive

You are not an alien
In God’s eyes
Be at peace with yourself
And you will rise.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

HOMETOWN OF THE SOUL

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There is no other reward than finding yourself

The reward is finding yourself
And experiencing the joy of being yourself

It might seem like a small reward to you now
But when you’ve tasted everything else
Then you’ll understand that this is the greatest reward

Anything that emerges from deep within me
Is native to me
My hometown is a state of being

My state of being.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

UNDERSTANDING VALUES

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How foreign is a foreigner
In a land of foreign values
If the values of the foreign
Are native to him?

How rightful are a native’s rights
In a land of prayer and righteousness
If he claims for himself the right
To deny an unbeliever his human rights?

Democracy is a car – if you insist
That they exchange their horse for your car
How can you stop them from roughly driving the car
Like they rode their horse, out into the wild?

Religion is a house – if you insist that they
Abandon nature and make your house their home
How can you stop them from inviting their old nature
Into your eternal rigid walls?

Who knows the answer?
Religion doesn’t know the answer
Politics doesn’t know the answer
Only really human beings know the answer.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.