Good is not a virtue signal

Good deeds each plant their own seed

Sprouting beauty into our lives

Slowly nurtured from the ground up

Taking root, unbreakable truth

We build the places in which we live

Shaping our world interconnected

A shadow rests heavy on our vanity

For all is not as it seems

Stars shining without regard

Unwittingly chasing riches

Forced to dismiss the good 

In pursuit of utopian dreams

Take a look around

What do you see

Plant the seed

Spread the word

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in The Precipice, Camille’s third contemporary poetry collection. Good is not a virtue signal speaks to the moral difference between appearance and action — affirming that genuine goodness is cultivated through lived care, while vanity and hollow aspiration estrange us from what truly sustains the world.

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

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