I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4r0J3EcNJ
Every waking moment and in my every dream,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOBqcP3UAt
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXr34XV3ICT
As is still the case although the work is now done.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEFHLp2kXP
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Idealistic young lawyer,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OI3Y6ICpc
In his first posting as a dean,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwZMn8XobQ
In a for-profit business school,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1XJgl7LW3
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6r4G5eism
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Worked very long hours,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7a01NuOvs
To change what was wrong,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHmmTQEkWr
Achieved great success,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqC7VVdWw8e
Which all came to naught.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9tHiks0GD
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIt1Q8yp0uP
Stubbornly refusing to accept,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTT3DQ6lTv
That which could be changed through simple hard work,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVyhAcbGlw
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlW85mUXbid
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A classic clash of missions and visions,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7QkGNRGTv
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9b1fh1WD88
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8to7faG6UL
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sCw00aYWD
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I implemented meaningful changes,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxaRXoKqOe
That brought unintended consequences,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjU0lew9DN5
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaZ9Ih0QVT
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVGaPpUViL
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And I learned critical lessons,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJL9TOqA3S
Not just about an industry I did not know,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2EaAFyJMn
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJhDp7veAE
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAyqSs08z7
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUvMSTT8MZ
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWp6fY5gZHB
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOiCnYGFtZ
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2DyQubqxB
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrw9IVcGBVV
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1K0UtG0TmS
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GXq0oydr4
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfjzpZ9pYy
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXO74xBVvj
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmc8pnqqLc
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmASweKSuoy
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6LoOwlOb8
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After two decades of gestation,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UtP2nZNnh
I've now given birth to my first child,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORTrVnGQaR
The afterbirth has been cleaned,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8ObdEWVNT
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvRJSbWypF
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I fell in love with her the moment116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5v6pU2uH86
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1rnHHvtwa
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMffgjVTmkK
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MWaEw0WXl
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9p1UbImQo
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCarmR0WTFN
Hoping they will love her116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrs7X3RkcD
But knowing they may not.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVnBKhlbgl
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmvgRpQ6QW
I will home school her, teach her all I know,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5P9jr4Zzwi
And ready her as best I can to face the world,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPrHQGUiKA
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzYfUDXot2
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkFr7q0ZBk
In a year or so if life will allow it,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtoGeHQGL3
My heart is large and still has room,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeQofosNJr
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXoSEngHSk
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: