You’re walking on water
Don’t think it is land
The tide is about to turn
Your feet into sand
Signals sent out over the earth
Kill them before they grow
There is a protection Claws in our justice
For a darker tomorrow
Subliminal messages
Password more valid than passport
What is the colour of love?
Blindness is just in court
Mankind will destroy humanity
And claim to be its saviour
And cunning will mask hatred
And none shalt love thy neighbour.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
In Memory.
The bullet leapt
Wept the barrel with
Sorrow’s silent shriek protesting
The bullet’s hunger
Feeding the
Blood bank’s Belly, saving
Not life, but your account
Of – what? – your life?
Countless Cowries
Bagged in bloated
Human hide
Yet not enough to buy back
Recompense.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Holding on to peace dream
While staring down
The barrel of a gun!
Staring down the gun!
The gun is trembling with fear
How many bullets are needed
To shoot down peace?
The gun bucks!
The clock stops!
Peace is my song.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
When a gun shouts
It sounds like a whip on crack
So why are you laying that wound
On your brother,
Brother?
You have none other than
The last one you just buried
Those graves are not for the brave
Your brother’s life is all you have,
Brother.
Soldier soldier don’t shoot
Fingerfood for thought is trigger for the unhappy
A life in exchange for a shot
And you call that a fair deal?
Poor substitute.
But they say, look here
We don’t like all these heavy words.
Give us laughter, give us comfort, give us food
Give us pride, give us a shining ring
Or, if you can, give us hope.
Someone has to get up
Someone has to get up first.
– CHE CHIDI CHUKWUMERIJE.
What kind of “soldiers” waylay, ambush and kill an 86yr old man?
And what kind of people celebrate such “brave soldiers”?
Are you not ashamed?
Is this how you want to win human hearts over to your cause?
You are not only killing lives. Even more importantly, you are killing any sympathies that billions of people all over the world could have ever felt for you.
The more you kill, the more you lose.
Stop it. Become human.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije 