Blind obedience will not do

In the act of blind obedience

Do not be walked off the edge

For it is not disobedience 

To watch your step

Just the simple formulation

Of a life of our own

Free to roam and reminisce

On those silly questions…

Only fools do not ask

The past reaches forward

In a soft whisper to awaken

You have been here before

Best to open your eyes now

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in Behind the Facade, Camille’s debut contemporary poetry collection. Blind obedience will not do speaks to the moral necessity of independent thought — insisting that awareness, questioning and historical memory are essential safeguards against surrendering the self.

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