SCROLLING

Lost in the detail
the news box jumps
into shudders of frenzy
Erratic loose bumps
unarmed with spiritual
context. Mind humps
matter mechanically
repeatedly aggressively
exhaustingly inconclusively
Algorithmically lumps
worldly with worldly opaquely
in ever thickening clumps
while scrolling thoughtfully
a nervous heart unsatisfactorily
seekingly nervously thumps.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

HATRED HAS MANY BELIEVERS

Watch that hatred bang
Its head on the wall
Watch it struggle against a bridge
Over a gorge, dig a hole and fall
Hear it, baffled, ponder into the night.
The middle is thinning out into left and right
I know you don’t believe in the light
Because it’s hard to believe in something
You don’t understand –
It’s safer to hate in numbers
For the logic of hatred is easy to comprehend
Only a few will be left standing
After love has conquered the land.
Tread soft, haters, you’re walking on quicksand.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.