A sense of something

Watching slowly

Piece by piece

You depart

Brick by Brick

Taken away

Lost to the crowd

Do this

Be this

Eat this

Don’t eat that

Don’t be sad

Can’t say that

Speak up

Leave room

Take up space

Live more simply

Life is complicated

Find balance

Work hard

Think less

Be mindful

Do you

Recycle thoughts

Time intersects

I feel you coming

A reckoning

Truth out

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in The Precipice, Camille’s third contemporary poetry collection. A sense of something explores the pressure of modern instruction and self-erasure — tracing a fractured world of commands, contradictions, and recycled thought until a deeper reckoning with truth begins to surface.

This poem is available as a contemporary poetry print on textured recycled card.

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