Jetski Freedom

A ride on the jetski a whole lot of fun. A ride on the water- I loved it a ton!

Viewing dolphins and homes, I can’t afford…but out on the water-no time to get bored. 

We go through the mangroves and avoid the sea grass. Slow speeds and high speeds- going so fast!

A raft from Cuba was stuck in a cove. Wonder how many made it on the wind that it rode. Where are the people? Did they get flipped out?  Or did they make it to Saftey?-To the U.S.-no doubt. 

It’s little sail, still mainly in tact. To drive them to freedom-it had an impact! 

How desperate their life to go on that ride-to the land of freedom and the things it provides. 

I’ll never know if they made it or not… but the raft that was stuck.. hadn’t had time to rot.

We’re so lucky to live where we are! To have freedoms to drive by boat or by car. To have such a life, with not many cares. Get on the raft-what it means if you dare! 

So my jetski ride left a different impact! 

Not as wild a ride as that raft, and the cargo it packed.  

By Karen Lang 2022


Turncoat Elite

Want to go to Cuba and see what it’s about? To visit its beauty and relieving your doubt. Make sure that you visit all of the people…and stand in the lines and see the upheaval. 

See how they live that makes them flee… to want to go on a raft, get tossed by the sea. 

To be ruled by a man who has kept them all down.  To makes them risk their lives, in the water and drown.  

Why does he want you to come? To see all the beauty and how far that they’ve  become? I think not! I think it’s a farce. Food and money for the people, is sparse. 

So If you go to Cuba, just go out on the street. Finding the people to make it complete. Talk to the families, if you do dare. If you can find them, at the town square.  

Would you want to move there? Think it’s all good?  Think you’d find out,  he’s misunderstood?  Then pack your bags and head out of town. When you leave our freedoms, don’t turn around. 

Hang with your buddies and hang with the crowd. I bet you’ll be happy and so very proud.  Only ones you’ll see- the ones that you meet... Are just like you-the turncoat elite!! 

By Karen Lang 2022


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