Nothing new

In the games we play

Boring and restrictive

With dramatic endings

How much time is wasted?

The meaning of it all

Is only the meaning you give

Played out all over the world

Practiced ‘time and time again’

Is it only to play big

in this large expanse?

To feel ‘larger than life’

or just alive?

Why not dance together

under the starlight?

For the small

Have quite a view

At this ‘game of life’

The game controller is universal

It will never be controlled by fools gold

So why play the fools game

When you can live a life of your own

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in Behind the Facade, Camille’s debut contemporary poetry collection. Nothing new speaks to the emptiness of inherited social games — urging a more conscious, self-directed life shaped by wonder, freedom and genuine human connection rather than hollow ambition.

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

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