Deep in debt

Universal are the laws of balance

Aligning negative with positive

The essence of life

Dig a hole to build a mountain

The sum of both is none

A rule of give and take

In this space the river of knowledge resides

Flowing freely in the passage of time

All ownership is void

Our mass of negative energy is accelerating

A debt so deep it is our grave

Time to weigh with considerable evaluation

The law we cannot buy

Before we are lost in space

Balanced out by nature’s scale

A counterbalance is change

Moving to a new state of mind

To nurture not own

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. Deep in debt reflects on imbalance as both ecological and philosophical crisis — suggesting that a culture built on ownership, extraction and unchecked accumulation has drifted dangerously far from the deeper laws of reciprocity, limit and care.


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

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