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.