Don’t take me to be a fool

I too know this game you play

The illusion of the unseen,

But only by the eye

Intuition plays here too

Untangled is the fact in fiction 

While fiction lays tangled in itself

Inescapable from the fact that it is fiction

Fiction tells a lot about the truth

Truth the fear of fools

Who narrate without care for it

Consequence is a patient force

Sneaking up on the fools that fooled themselves

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in Behind the Facade, Camille’s debut contemporary poetry collection. Don’t take me to be a fool speaks to the tension between deception and discernment — asserting that truth may be obscured by performance, but never fully escapes the quiet intelligence that recognises it.