I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4860Y7oN5
Every waking moment and in my every dream,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAylV0GwaZ2
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0obpCOief
As is still the case although the work is now done.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOLD5PH0pV
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Idealistic young lawyer,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzg4hqozXj
In his first posting as a dean,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9H8J39zJey
In a for-profit business school,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavZw77Doe3
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4tp3vfU3f
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Worked very long hours,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvYFHvxKhZ
To change what was wrong,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqi65DUsK7u
Achieved great success,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nSP9tRCG9
Which all came to naught.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uIzLFQ84r
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YGz6dcEiH
Stubbornly refusing to accept,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFa7VoukQZY
That which could be changed through simple hard work,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUlhi2dhmJ
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXoFPfUPtkM
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A classic clash of missions and visions,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNTuV6cwXe
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOCMMd1y6C
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJj6v6VDHR
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxM5ykmlusn
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I implemented meaningful changes,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40zGZLV1Uh
That brought unintended consequences,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2qEs7GT5r
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraJwHTcSu7
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOXfhglFHx
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And I learned critical lessons,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmmUsP5eKS
Not just about an industry I did not know,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjEItBm2aA
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplciBbcjPi
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFzprTG9Eh
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtqzEWMm0p
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70QsdCMxcC
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pe0AFmU7E
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukpVG9ynXy
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhIsS8mNAf
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIZRW77zTu
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIOUzTpuq8
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUa6vJ26Rpi
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DiLdPArc2
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYg2Ztl1El
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xQ4DB4gAZ
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRppsMInrj
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After two decades of gestation,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9C1OYNMKG
I've now given birth to my first child,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgADPOpQDW
The afterbirth has been cleaned,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEEGKMCSnI
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVaWfbVHCv
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I fell in love with her the moment170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvNh9vzKZK
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqW3iBigG7F
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVxxblPAGp
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiEuC1jDLK
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZB4LwlDqn
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiVuz50H0U
Hoping they will love her170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUaR66CcI8
But knowing they may not.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYM0ub7hpq
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXH3akIp9X
I will home school her, teach her all I know,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5FY7wGxd6
And ready her as best I can to face the world,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsr9sRyo3cA
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RSTlCSu0h
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGES7rTLV9
In a year or so if life will allow it,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwkuvi2ZHI
My heart is large and still has room,170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZg8wpNeSt
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.170Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWFk1QsU1T
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: