I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKoHFP9sdh
Every waking moment and in my every dream,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMJy8Ek6tm
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcge0yCBlUY
As is still the case although the work is now done.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JoivyCaZb
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Idealistic young lawyer,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMz0OgwxTK
In his first posting as a dean,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUro06b7c5g
In a for-profit business school,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVapVU5i4U
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOiO3T9VqR
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Worked very long hours,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBpljWBdNn
To change what was wrong,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPaXNpJUVua
Achieved great success,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXeBEYkbQt
Which all came to naught.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPsssYf4Q5
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0vNGj8y5O
Stubbornly refusing to accept,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoc7Ip8lrmh
That which could be changed through simple hard work,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQFa4R1KBA
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVisbha3132
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A classic clash of missions and visions,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgriyrO2YU
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPR1b9PDXFX
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZQs2BNCDs
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBSKwJmQk5
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I implemented meaningful changes,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUP4sJyxzX9
That brought unintended consequences,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KK0l2lzTc
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJSKmNH5sA
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQmCD6ARPI
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And I learned critical lessons,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9N5SDVaOH
Not just about an industry I did not know,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdObcfMVaal
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHeMUPZEqK
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iwsGg3cdP
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTapkL0u32
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY43nTgKDDb
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbiHDdVYMB4
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt60USCh46D
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQHGdkJLV8
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTFQx1EvcX
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfF74WQkXg
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPTzxAISAp
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqasKe9Ay6O
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYndYkuBY2
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6fgaxDS3L
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRSFpyXM0c
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After two decades of gestation,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpD9ZAZmish
I've now given birth to my first child,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIVhKjoQJz
The afterbirth has been cleaned,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2S1HxTZNz
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLROnDN5bJ
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I fell in love with her the moment19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRjYsyAAzs
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDtXRqOEf0
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4cPTHz080
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIm482Yk1bY
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9FwCF5gM6
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrSg7hUdoC
Hoping they will love her19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdt7rDTblzu
But knowing they may not.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrR4M0JuMBT
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfrDuxA07w
I will home school her, teach her all I know,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU28ppWaGgb
And ready her as best I can to face the world,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoDmtZT4Yo
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyiqUQVWc7
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8zMF7PoxD
In a year or so if life will allow it,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7YXnuPA1e
My heart is large and still has room,19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iHp5k9taY
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnvzvQk14kH
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: