The Way I See It
- 4 days ago
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By Linette Rabsatt
PROMPT — The way I see it ...
my vision is slightly obscured
not necessarily blurred
but the way I see it
things always have a hidden meaning
not because the rooster crows
at odd times of the day
means that he’s lost his way
I see the light he sees
in the night and in the day
and he’s assimilated to the modern way
the way I see it
it’s the same way we have adjusted
entrusted our lives into technology
and then we wonder why we can’t see
our eyes are tired from
the constant stimulation
endless manipulation
the way I see it
the rooster is better off
he’s adjusted but he’s not lost
his compass still pulls him to safety
while we gravitate to things more gravely
the way I see it
we need to get back on track
because even though our ancestors lacked
they still were better off
growing their own food and finding use
for things we discard daily
the way I see it
we have a lot of back tracking to do
to get back to our true purpose
Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet. Read her work in her Kindle book, Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt and on her blog, Words of Ribbon. Her poems and short stories have been published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Double Speak Magazine, Pulse Poetry Magazine, Syncopation Literary Journal, Spillwords, and Micromance Magazine. She won the 2024 and 2025 (tied) Read Yuh Ting TOO Virtual Caribbean Poetry Contests and placed second in the 2025 Tell Yuh Story Contest.
