Life at a standstill

This day is desperate

It searches mediocre streams

Of minds unbothered

Unchanging formulas

In an ever-changing world

Falling behind

Today is yesterday

Disorientating in due course

Counting the grains of sand

Leaving no time at all

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in The Precipice, Camille’s third contemporary poetry collection. Life at a standstill speaks to the quiet paralysis of a culture trapped in repetition — where stale thinking and mechanical routines leave little room to meet the demands of a world already moving beyond them.

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

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