Why don’t people take opportunities When they come? Most especially those opportunities That come from The heart and appeal to the sixth sense And, if grasped, lead us back to the essence Of the purpose of being human and fulfilled. A happiness, a love, heartfelt and God-willed. The best opportunities Don’t make us wealthy. The best opportunities Make us happy. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
opportunities
CHANCES ARE
To me it’s neither a window nor a door This thing called opportunity It’s a cloud, a bubble, foam on the shore Of nature’s recurring serendipity You will get chances to rise And you will get chances to fall Which one of these two you utilise Well, that is your call. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
SOME COME, SOME GO
Talk to the clouds
As you would talk to a departed friend
As you would write to a distant lover
As you would whisper to your future
Quietly within your heart.
For they are dreams
Gathering on the roof of your destiny
And they shall rain upon you
Or they shall disperse and quietly disappear –
Some are fulfilled, some are not. This is life.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
CLOSED CYCLES
You start. I’m scared, my friend,
Of finding the floor with my feet first
They might lead me astray
Doubleback. The start is the end
Why quench your longing with a thirst
That might never go away?
It’s hard to move
When you move together
One has to receive, and one has to give
Together in opposite directions
Well I can’t prove
If we do or don’t belong together
But cycles close, something had to give
And unmasked all our pretensions.
Missed opportunities
Mixed opportunities.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 