When people reject you They don’t realise they’ve done you a favour; You can move on from the rejected you And metamorphose into a higher nature. Had they accepted you You would have remained the old creature In that lower state unaware that you Could have activated this new extra feature That has deepened, strengthened, elevated you. Rejection is ejection into motion, An injection of self-reflection Towards redemption and transformation. An injunction to move, and motivation To self-improve in a new direction With grit, with purpose, and with intention. On the path towards self-realisation and self-actualisation, every new rejection Is another tiny course-correction. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
transformation
NEW EVERY MORNING
Every day, like a mother,
delivers a new version of me
No matter what binds me today,
tomorrow I will be free.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river
CHANGING
That feeling
That it is the end of an era
And your life is about to change
Every song you play
Is like a lullaby of life’s evening
With morning on the mountain-range
Once distant
Now descending like dawn‘s mist
The way it will constantly re-arrange
It‘s shape before you
And around you and within you
And make you feel new, open and strange.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
RENEWAL
Every end is a bend
Every conclusion is a transition
Every termination is a transformation
The terminal
Is diurnal
Life means undeath
Unsheath the wreath
Catch your eternal breath
My friend.
– che chidi chukwumerije
DEATH IS UNENDING
There is death
Without dying
Death of old things
Of shedding old feelings
You become a ghost
Of your former self –
Restless in peace
Because you’ve got so much to do.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
DISAPPEARING
That which is over
Feels like a dream
Even if it ended
Just yesterday
No matter how far in the past
No matter how far away
An unended story lies
It is with you here today
The heart is a miracle of chapters
Where pages grow blank
And as the days turn to nights and back
So life turns the pages of your heart.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
IT WAS IMPORTANT
When the cloud waved goodbye
To the sky, turned to rain
And fled to earth, it said to sky
I’m not going back
I’m moving on
When I left you, changed
And came back into myself
It was important for me to let you know
I was not going back
I was moving forward.
The old is not old
When seen with new eyes.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 