The midnight hour

We’ve conquered every land

Now all that is left

Is for us to go

No more lands to devastate

No more people to displace

Unless … Are you ready for it?

Change!

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in The Precipice, Camille’s third contemporary poetry collection. The midnight hour reflects on the exhausted logic of conquest — distilling violence, dispossession, and ecological ruin into a final, urgent recognition that transformation is no longer optional but inevitable.

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

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