I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqW9ZBwYXuC
Every waking moment and in my every dream,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyeEqVwTRD
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxasyIWkXiI
As is still the case although the work is now done.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUmpmSZOkI
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Idealistic young lawyer,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOuhH6xBH4
In his first posting as a dean,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRYAV8jIwa
In a for-profit business school,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBfzo3dKOT
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXslZvgQ0i
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Worked very long hours,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FUrBHVmcL
To change what was wrong,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdHwRV7Lkq
Achieved great success,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOg8KVEOOg1
Which all came to naught.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33om35C5Jo
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHiAVxqMIC
Stubbornly refusing to accept,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIczZYkBhaA
That which could be changed through simple hard work,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOmyH20oIJ
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwNvl60KPy
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A classic clash of missions and visions,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCNChE4xIK
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeS2wUUISG
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbrI1uOCbm
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Yp9zvF343
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I implemented meaningful changes,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgzwZjy9fM
That brought unintended consequences,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNRdLb5mmt
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWirbspcPcK
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMUC1r0kPO
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And I learned critical lessons,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2a0pIRraDy
Not just about an industry I did not know,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTVLLrBaka
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjCK7j78ls
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4H0w1TkQ4
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSoB90OfSP
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAgIX2p3Sm
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrAYGdzrlu
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2jvLaHdfK
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkmZYvKbzO
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDEj4rWDYk
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmNjOTGbEl
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIZb4iG0PJ
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdDANyJyhB
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUv0CPgAoXO
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXWsErX8xn
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlg0X1Y7D7z
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After two decades of gestation,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyyjx8MCMy
I've now given birth to my first child,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLuO4HBvTo3
The afterbirth has been cleaned,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qA48l00ef
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQCQ0voUBz
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I fell in love with her the moment497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jHtkEjSFZ
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7WVbBsLKS
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFN58wm2v9F
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTBWlNN1On
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcHJcDyPJP
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALgOuxc7KQ
Hoping they will love her497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUaMpld951
But knowing they may not.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBzYUsSdlG
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAN5bnxRgA3
I will home school her, teach her all I know,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoXYPUOEoK
And ready her as best I can to face the world,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6PtWr106O
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4GyeYC6n0
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpcRgNH1O5
In a year or so if life will allow it,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52fy9yrrvE
My heart is large and still has room,497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpGOmIShiO
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.497Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFW9tZVDmh
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: