I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFqVQ3EwbF
Every waking moment and in my every dream,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWB3nNLxOzQ
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScTRXk6puO
As is still the case although the work is now done.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2Doj9ZNla
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Idealistic young lawyer,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCIcBS1JMs
In his first posting as a dean,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFTNBL3rqm
In a for-profit business school,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1F76y2fzf
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPjDSYi8dw
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Worked very long hours,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaArVSSaWj
To change what was wrong,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvU3cx5EPGe
Achieved great success,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyO0mLyX1tz
Which all came to naught.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVoTwnxwIJ
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmF4Sqk9AQN
Stubbornly refusing to accept,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyhRhaQYwn
That which could be changed through simple hard work,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NNgggP3ya
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3pqt9IU3e
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A classic clash of missions and visions,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bA1YoBT2D
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66jm1G1KIx
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWtjpJgSas
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzauGIjd0qy
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I implemented meaningful changes,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZu8rhfzPod
That brought unintended consequences,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSQmVCPF2J
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHardS1FjdM
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDg0n0mNScB
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And I learned critical lessons,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLDBCE2Na8
Not just about an industry I did not know,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6WtdqQjUfA
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzN3i6wVJQq
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQ9L3HsUCa
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3L17prmBO
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTpAI8uLZT
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jDeWYQj6S
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bmapqjDpf
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXcOLzcR5GU
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ457kd6kpUF
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYJBqkz8le
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEs2Cu5Q4RH
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnRkL42vVc
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8kUxWi27K
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZaB2zE1HS
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvL9qh3euKH
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After two decades of gestation,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlhimtkph1
I've now given birth to my first child,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXqYyBsOl1
The afterbirth has been cleaned,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfy9oosV4FE
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBBZU5sVXp
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I fell in love with her the moment185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSJLWWq6oN
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkvBa3CIEB
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTw6wtdJ0Tr
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZpvNRbnCK
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1os180QE6Q
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgtjnlFEVK
Hoping they will love her185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRcmvfHKqH
But knowing they may not.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4u3sjEqte
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8aA3N8fpBj
I will home school her, teach her all I know,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZlyqOJ0K5
And ready her as best I can to face the world,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4g6mSruwZ
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4yK9n2r2N
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfetotMZyT3
In a year or so if life will allow it,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDg22FhHATz
My heart is large and still has room,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNbtLVRL7Q
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡos9rtZ3XSG
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: