2011 New Years prayer

A dear friend recently home from the hospital, coming to terms with her failing health asked, “How can I die when Cuba is not free?”  It seems they come more frequently now, phone calls or emails announcing an illness, or informing about the passing of a friend or an acquaintance, followed by expressions lamenting that they passed burdened by exile; the heartbreak of never having seen their beloved Cuba again, and worse, forced to face death knowing that the island of their birth is still ruled by the brutal tyrants.    The same men who terrorized their way to power, murdering anyone who got in their way, the same men who decimated families, the same men who robbed millions of  intended lives leaving an empty hole, unending longing, an endless stream of  tears, and gut wrenching sobs.  Tears and sobs that the world, with back turned, never sees, and never hears.  1959-2011—fifty-two years of incomprehensible suffering.

Dear God only you know when it will end, but as long as we breathe, have a voice that speaks, and fingers that can type, we will continue the fight for a free Cuba.  Please God, let it be your will that 2011 is the year the nightmare finally ends.    ¡Viva Cuba Libre!

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