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
opportunity
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
OPPORTUNITY
Good Morning Opportunity, In what ever form or person you cross my path today May I have the strength and clarity To recognise, appreciate, take, keep and use you, I pray. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
READY OR NOT
By the time you’re ready for me I’ll be ready for me too I’ll no longer need you to Complete me and hold steady for me. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
LIFE’S BOOK OF REVELATIONS
If you want to know people
Observe how they are
When they don’t have to be kind
To get what they want
When they don’t need to be nice
To secure their existence
When they don’t have to put up a show
Of strength or weakness
To protect their safety and preserve their advantage
When they have you in their power
Within the boundaries of their Circle of influence
On their sovereign soil
At their mercy
This is when you know a people
This is when you know a human being
When they have the opportunity to do anything with you
And get away with it
This is when you know yourself –
When you have the opportunity to do something
And get away with it.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
TENDERLY
I hold you tenderly
Like a precious thought
I sparingly share
Only with strangers
For they know not its worth
Will not rob me of it or its meaning or
Crush it to death like a writer
Crushes an idea in his mind –
Might be a butterfly
Might be a petal
Might be a story that would have changed minds –
Gone, unwritten, unspoken, unshared.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCKING ON WHOSE DOOR?
Opportunity is temptation
Take not every one that comes
It knocks but once, they say
But where does it open into?
Stay on your path.
When in doubt,
Listen inwards.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 