POEMS by Mike Bailey
These are some poems that I wrote between 1973 & 1982

WE THOUGHT WE KNEW SO MUCH
W thought we knew so much
But in the end we found out how little we knew
We became wise in our own eyes
We did not see far enough ahead to the pit we would fall in
We didn't think we could fall
We thought we were too sharp to stumble
We were blind and walking in darkness
We thought the angels would never leave us
This thought never entered our minds
In our hour of glory we did not see the darkness ahead
We had sowed the seeds of contempt and didn't realize it
The angels fled to watch from a distance
Then the time came to change our thinking
The time came to weigh our motives
The time came to judge ourselves
We searched our souls and evaluated the situation
And stood on the highway of life
We looked down the road that leads to destruction
We looked down the road that leads to life
And called on ten thousand legions of angels in the name of the Lord
To help us back on the road to life
We picked up where we left off, wounded but wiser
As the wounds healed we walked more careful

MANY DAYS AGO
The wind blew over the white capped waves
That slap against the shore
And the bobbing seaweed whips
That cluster by the score
Castles made of sand on the beach
Are washed away with the tide
Above the green blue watery spray
Seagulls soar and glide
Then a towering bluff of mud
The winding trails go down
To the salty water below
They call the Puget Sound
Many a day in my younger years
I walked the silver sand
My mind emersed in tranquil thoughts
While terranian scenes I scanned
I drank into natures mysteries
And listened to her tales
And dug for clams among the rocks
While watching boats with sails
Now many years have come and gone
But these memories I still hold
As I walked along the beach
In silence and still untold
Alone I stood neith summer sun
The lessons I learned well
Of innocents and experience
The human tongue can't tell
I left that shore, I left that sand
I left in the evening tide
I climbed that towering bluff of mud
Where I let my thoughts just glide
I went on home where I belonged
And dreamed of a different land
I live my life the way I do
You'd think I had this planned