I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8t1BJBr04m
Every waking moment and in my every dream,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCodttYSR45
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4C5UqJvYqQ
As is still the case although the work is now done.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeDPlVNufZ
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Idealistic young lawyer,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaP45xpE1uY
In his first posting as a dean,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXDhAYUD6u
In a for-profit business school,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUG7CLjZLk
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOrWhppzsu
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Worked very long hours,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69Rv0wPB0T
To change what was wrong,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwLzAQ3TFy
Achieved great success,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55WEahElmI
Which all came to naught.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCT8baqBjR
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mjKiHOmJH
Stubbornly refusing to accept,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeohN5IWnRH
That which could be changed through simple hard work,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWgitJAyhm
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oG3AdN7qx
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A classic clash of missions and visions,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZz3Dtcqsns
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe686UUQTdl
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxYxxEntc1
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsS84Tf77p
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I implemented meaningful changes,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BsiAcKsy2
That brought unintended consequences,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLqpdQIo1e
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4Jb8STfYh
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAgITjsgqY
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And I learned critical lessons,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskOZsUT8LN
Not just about an industry I did not know,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXYaeRynLj
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6NnNXoDXD
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyDBt7F5tx
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGhQFUKtjq
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdCz0z9Nqm
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgz3IkXy04
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lS9QPEtAq
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrGL3xa62u
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6OQpmOqLa
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhKHEioo4R
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYghydVFjdO
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJx860Kojqa
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhwm5IN2t2
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZtCPEPrNA
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3UTlRSw5n
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After two decades of gestation,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJemJb85t0T
I've now given birth to my first child,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXweA1YBrT
The afterbirth has been cleaned,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCjbnZNr3S
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfMfogZPvJ
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I fell in love with her the moment116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBmuNfpl6X
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7iNL7O0QY
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzy1X6ZO1j
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0NNE9RCAk
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjen3qmW3Va
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppVYacse4X
Hoping they will love her116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XxxRD2lJ9
But knowing they may not.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXb0vDZscQ4
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63tR6kYGwH
I will home school her, teach her all I know,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRLOIXmMW4
And ready her as best I can to face the world,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XEQbyfgL3
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyn1aipiPF
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyusKsVh4MT
In a year or so if life will allow it,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXZkBXXHre
My heart is large and still has room,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAAtxxJJfW
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkZC08VIYK
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: