Hypocrisy

Small ripples drift off

Their destination unknown

You may ride the wave

But not steal the ride

Do not push in line

Then tell a lie

Hypocrisy denies

Look on the other side

Nice guys finish 

Bad guys are incomplete

The fool that fools themselves

Fails to be fulfilled

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. Hypocrisy speaks to the corrosive gap between conduct and conscience — suggesting that self-deception, dishonesty and small moral evasions diminish not only integrity, but the possibility of genuine fulfilment.


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

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