I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQMJx3EwI5
Every waking moment and in my every dream,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhjpzTmowz
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5lFsXmsZf
As is still the case although the work is now done.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQIpIcJdv7
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Idealistic young lawyer,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXxfdWfzl1
In his first posting as a dean,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDxZGdziyq
In a for-profit business school,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsAS89NgPE
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjw0Rm32EUr
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Worked very long hours,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPrFxdrh3d
To change what was wrong,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wxTxFsoNO
Achieved great success,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtDeKk9AEz
Which all came to naught.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYjQruTNVI
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjf8xG4WxW
Stubbornly refusing to accept,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJp3cuHLIGX
That which could be changed through simple hard work,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKd7Zlpfc4
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVwe33VRdG
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A classic clash of missions and visions,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPY8NXvwMd3
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkkkid6pGE
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWg7z0rGLH
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfLw0krawg
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I implemented meaningful changes,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyl9ObgDNW
That brought unintended consequences,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wZf9koLsS
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAecbfyPVv
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibCC0hli0Z
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And I learned critical lessons,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbZMne4DLI
Not just about an industry I did not know,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQmQiYk1xS
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBd3uX4Mlvj
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5IpTxVARC
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXD0nh27Yn
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eUfLx45yC
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DRMJitrwA
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWwSWJwVam
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNtM8g5LYP
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOS3FlGcOpY
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWClcWBLIX
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcQ60OTvbW
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJi7kcTr9Mr
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9T6mPzDaQO
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOR7VxZ9zTB
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJrh4zFcfK
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After two decades of gestation,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4SjsDj3kv
I've now given birth to my first child,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuag0UUOITg
The afterbirth has been cleaned,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyCfapdyR0
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTHt7Qs4r2
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I fell in love with her the moment16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquDA7HbGev
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0T1FtEtPY
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINP8MhtTkL
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQoE4BjoPE
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBHxjnbF1y
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡam6rTFO1Gx
Hoping they will love her16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapHWmSGI1Y
But knowing they may not.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxQcLfM599
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwORQRbT3Dw
I will home school her, teach her all I know,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzMmT3cHNt
And ready her as best I can to face the world,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCbtWZJI2g
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCxPCDBzsW
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbF6UrbOnH
In a year or so if life will allow it,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYTehRV6g7
My heart is large and still has room,16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa108VzVFw7
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuN2x9VqNvq
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: