Eradication of absurd wealth

Donate money to charity they chant

never a whisper of halting welfare to the wealthy

as an industry is created

must keep the hordes busy and pacified

Addictions rule in this domain

of ‘false value systems’

blind to the deprivation of poverty

feeding a frenzy of over consumption

The game was rigged

rules made to manipulate

denial a fools platitude

redistribution from a good days work

Our dated fate to doom

all deceived by greed’s green goblin

sold out, sold up

the masters whip is weakening

Now imagine another way

no, rather recalculate a new way

initiate the necessary

a collective power to sway

As the pendulum swings, times up

we are the value, the power and peaceful

discarding dysfunction

as the starving are fed on surplus

and the sick healed by good conscience

Eradicate what does not serve

a matter of simple math

if you have too much

then I have not enough

take out greed

add in equality

the solution spreads out

an equal right to survive

a link between us and the mother that sustains us

Eradication of absurd poverty achieved

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in Behind the Facade, Camille’s debut contemporary poetry collection. Eradication of absurd wealth speaks to the moral and structural violence of extreme inequality — rejecting systems that glorify excess while denying others the basic right to survive, and imagining redistribution as both justice and necessity.