Reminiscing your river

Your depth again, how wonderful...
a thousand suns shinning brightly, but I know a brighter moon...
your eyes, two moons
reflected light, you say?
nay, brighter
for the light whose reflection they are
is the light of insight
deep deep inside
as bright as the day was, more luminous is the quiet night,
portal of light eternal
there, far far away
nearer than thoughts can breach,
and never really reach
the things you, with a few humble words,
always teach...
tales by moonlight
the sleep that followed,
was it a dreaming or an awakening?
arising into a new dawn
not with a memory of dreams forgotten
or tales unremembered
in your thoughts
but full of the bursting thirst
in your heart
to set a world aglow
and pull the waters of a sleeping river
from deep underground
up, out into the day-conscious surface
of another thinking mind
watch the waters, how they rise
free of binding ties
river river, there’s a bird that cries
as it flies along
and doesn’t know why…

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Pain

If you avoid pain, you avoid life
If you avoid life, you avoid youth
If you avoid youth, you avoid love
If you avoid love, you avoid experiencing
If you avoid experiencing, you avoid growth
If you avoid growth, you avoid change
If you avoid change, you avoid strength
If you avoid strength, you avoid happiness
If you avoid happiness, you avoid disappointment
If you avoid disappointment, you avoid movement
If you avoid movement, you avoid knowledge
If you avoid knowledge, you avoid yourself
If you avoid yourself, you avoid beauty
If you avoid beauty, you avoid life…
Do not fear Pain. It is the proof that you live,
The outgrowing of yourself
The door that separates you from your dreams.
Cross it.
The acceptance, experiencing and mastering of pain
Is the seed out of which the tree of life shall blossom
In all its rich manifestation…
For you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Just Dance

A road of water, slippery
A bridge of knife-edge, treacherous
A fall of repetition, weakening
An opacity of reflection, saddening
A backdoor of wall, illusionary
A tiger if library, jealous
A conscience of intuition, merciless
Hardfall on softpain, intangibles
Awakening twice, once to life and once to self
Accepting the conditions of the journey
Intangibles, contradictions, repetitions, unpredictbles
Armed with Intuition and intellect
Go with the flow.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije