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