YOUR HEART IS A CUP

You will daily be given enough strength
To grapple with the challenges of the day.
Do you know that if you in focus don’t relent,
You can have many days in just one day?

How wonderful is God. WHAT is He indeed?
For Creation, His Work, is full of unfailing Magic -
Your harvest is ALWAYS the product of your seed.
Thus, to live without high drive and light-purpose is tragic.

There is a river, do you see it, or sense it?
We are always walking beside it. Our heart is a cup.
To water your flowers, you may draw water from it;
But if you stop watering your flowers, your river dries up.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE STRANGE BEAUTY OF A GOOD WOMAN

What, is it?
Struck, like thunderbolt
Thunder, and lightning
Yet gentle, as falling snow
Omnipresent, like substance
Everywhere, you turn it is
You cannot, hide away
From it
Once, it has caught you
In its tender, net –

It is love, some say
Pure, selfless love, they say
It is strange, is all I know
Makes, you ashamed
Afraid
And, after you have conquered, yourself
Weathered, shame and fear
It makes, you humble
And all you want, to do now
Strange
Is serve, the Almighty.

This is what, it does to you
This is what, it does to you
The strange beauty
Of, a good woman.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.