A day of peace
Let peace win the day
You were going to lose anyway
Water leaks from a class war
Human rank and file
Has bled to death
And died in vain
Today pay with your own time
Be virtuous by deed
Wise with truth
Share the load
Poverty was too violent a war
It was always going to come to an end
This is a public service announcement
Have a nice day!
-Camille Delaquise
This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. A day of peace speaks to peace not as passive idealism, but as a deliberate social and moral refusal of exploitation — urging truth, shared responsibility and humane action in the face of class violence and needless suffering.
This poem is available as a contemporary poetry print on textured recycled card.