Did you ever notice?
When we become small, smallness
becomes big to us.
Both in rightness and in wrongness.

Those who have reduced
themselves in bondage to materialism
become totally convinced
that matter is the boundary of realism.

But those who have humbled
themselves to serve the small inner voice
are content to be invisible
in fulfilling that in which their spirits rejoice

If you love flowers, flowers are big to you
If you crave power, power is big to you
If you are petty, pettiness is big to you
If you are virtuous, the virtues are big to you.

And someone doing a very small thing
will sometimes look big to you
While someone doing a very big thing
will sometimes look small to you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Poems from the inner river