Behind the facade
Oceans swell as lifestyle sells
The bare and barren truth lurks
An imagined Photoshop collage
Draws weary as deliveries stop
Where are you my dear old friend?
The one I knew so well as a child
Take me home…
to the birds that sing,
to the trees that whisper
and the flowers that bloom.
-Camille Delaquise
This poem appears in Behind the Facade, Camille’s debut contemporary poetry collection. Behind the facade speaks to the loss concealed beneath modern lifestyles — mourning a world of natural intimacy and simple belonging that has been obscured by spectacle, consumption and disconnection.