LOVERS AND OR FRIENDS

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My friends are more important to me than my lovers. Lovers betray you, at some level, but friends stay loyal. True friends. The best lovers are also friends. The best friends don’t have to be lovers, don’t need to be lovers, to mean the world to you. Friendship beats everything else. There are some people you can be lovers with, but not friends. The moment the love affair ends, the friendship collapses, because it was inwardly empty. It was only sex, carnal comfort and perhaps some degree of emotional connection, but without reciprocal Depth. No sex is worth the best friendship. Nothing beats a person you share your truth with and the truth is safe with them, and they share their truth with you and it is safe with you. Share is the operational word. Safe is the magic word. It is safeness and trust. Respect, honesty and genuineness.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

NICHT VERÄNDERBAR

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Die Erde dreht sich
Der Mensch ändert sich
Das ist das einzige,
Was unverändert bleibt.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

BAY OF HEART

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There is always something to say
And no one to say it to
The heart is a deep wide bay
Where stories and strangers sail into
To quietly offload, sit and recuperate
Locked in the soliloquy of the seeker
The pain-cooked rebirth to elevate
Phoenix back to Light in a world grown bleaker.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner rivero

UNSAGBAR

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Vieles behalte ich für mich
Denn für vieles gibt es keine Worte
Worte haben die Eigenart,
Die Wahrheit zu verfehlen, die zarte.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

HEALED BROKEN

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It’s not as easy as you think
Some bones heal in their broken position
Yes, they don’t hurt anymore
But they will never again make the same old motion
And you will never again feel the former emotion.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

JUST THE TWO OF US

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If it’s just the two of us, let it be just the two of us. Don’t believe what anyone from outside tells you.

If I open myself to you then, believe me, nobody knows me better than you do.

Trust your heart and trust me. The exclusive magic at the core of our love will see us through.

But if you fail to bring up the courage to believe, or if you yield to outside influence, you damage our super glue.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

ALLES TRIFFT ZU

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Alles trifft mich
Nichts erreicht mich
Manches berührt mich
Vieles verpasst mich
Wenig fasziniert mich

Aber alles erfasst mich
Und alles erfasse ich.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

DENIED

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If you died
Right now
Ask yourself
What have you lied
To yourself
About.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

EINFACH MACHEN

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Machen ist sich wünschen die höhere Form,
Oder die gröbere, und dem Macher die Norm.
Tu es einfach und nimm hin die Rückwirkung,
Sie ist Dein Lohn, Deiner Seele die Bereicherung.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

THE TRAIN

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The train is full of hopes
And full of broken hearts
Full of starts and stops
A moving story of many parts.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river