Breaking bread

The smell of comfort

Warmth of a loving embrace

Fuelled by community effort

Breaking to be shared

Nourishment is sliced evenly

A taste of what humanity could be

If only we chose to rise

The fundamental elements 

To a good life

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. Breaking bread reflects on shared sustenance as a simple but profound social ideal — imagining care, fairness and communal effort as the essential ingredients of a more generous and humane life.

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