Lets not pretend

Sometimes I am sad

I indulge in melancholy

Sometimes I am mad

Leaving no room for reason

Boredom too paid a visit

Then it wandered off

As if it did not care

Too vain to confess

My lesson is to let go

Note this one down

Next they come around

Emotions have an ebb and flow

The world is never still

There are days of sunshine

And days where it floods

Utopia is a fantasy

To say otherwise denies our: 

Complexity

Sorrow

Joy

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. Lets not pretend meditates on emotional honesty — resisting the fantasy of permanent ease and instead affirming sadness, anger, boredom and joy as necessary movements within the full complexity of being human.

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