Lighthouse in an Angry Sea: dedicated to all the employees in the Energy Corridor

Lighthouse in an Angry Sea: dedicated to all the employees in the Energy Corridor

Alone in my boat, awash at sea, so small not even there;

Tumult and peril rolling over me, I row, crying out in prayer:

 

“Be thou my shield and hiding place, a lighthouse amidst raging tide;

As my rising dinghy falls, by grace, keep me safe inside.”

by Manet

Oh wondrous love! To bleed and die to bear the cross and shame;

In the depths of woe I summon God, exclaiming Jesus’ name:

“Help thy lost sailor Lord, to land on yonder shore;

And witness praise of saints unknown, for ten thousand years and more!”

by Thomas Moran

©Mark H. Pillsbury (This work is my original poetry w/ inspirational credit due to John Newton, Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth Church, on Lombard Street in London, 1779; as well as the Rend Collective, Ireland, "My Lighthouse" 2014)

Dedicated to all the workers getting laid off in the Energy Corridor, Houston Texas...........