HURDLES ON LIFE'S WATERS

Once on life's stormy ocean Turbulent with splashes of uncertain winds I look beyond the skies to heaven Seeking to find a guardian angel To light my weary way across Amidst the clouds heavy and raining With the moon retired to it's day abode None hung above for light but one Like a diamond dot in the dark afar It's flickering ray it shown on earth And all night long it stood to guide The universal tempest not withstanding It still could whisper those words in echoes To put away my fears like ripples Till the first ray of hope was found In the early sun ascending Then this guardian star like wax Disappeared as if in a fire After so much a task in the dark The rainbow at dawn now glorious To float or founder i now must decide With my oars in my hands I stare at that star not there to thank On life's ocean blue and beautiful By Nyore Okiotor