What if?

Life could be

Peaceful

The road not yet taken

The formula gone

Creating beauty

From a seed

Watching it grow

Leaving only what life needs

Nothing more

What if?

Hope conquered fear

And joy was for all

A better world, for sure

Moving past what has had its day

No perfection, please

Just free

~ Camille

This poem appears in The Precipice, Camille’s third poetry collection, which centres on the rising inequality — profit over people — being the cause of our most urgent global crises, and that confronting this imbalance is essential if we are to step back from the edge. What If? captures the possibility that still exists, should we choose a different path.

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