I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9y8gOa6YE
Every waking moment and in my every dream,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILroBo0wPu
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BLg49tnPM
As is still the case although the work is now done.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CcZ8zz6jM
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Idealistic young lawyer,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2F3lqtj2U
In his first posting as a dean,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzjAa3Q8vC
In a for-profit business school,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnJ2HxpgKQ
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9nnnvEYTO
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Worked very long hours,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmWra1jexW
To change what was wrong,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpxoZVnmVp
Achieved great success,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRuSBTUitL
Which all came to naught.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5hae6folc
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQMVVpLz29
Stubbornly refusing to accept,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuIaNGxSHh
That which could be changed through simple hard work,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6hqZKG30E
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElCfZE4LKS
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A classic clash of missions and visions,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR48BufcPVW
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIf9qwB4CH
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOWaFtXXGg
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWkk42qnDA
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I implemented meaningful changes,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLneah5rAYx
That brought unintended consequences,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0KCoB3bs8
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fsUAgHaQp
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbq8lJUXIg
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And I learned critical lessons,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHnRgMwOUX
Not just about an industry I did not know,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsNzEkVnSd
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJzHpI6Uuf
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqbq1sk8B8
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNdwe8ArWg
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡes1VO6GycN
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0oSgcDjFOh
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbR84F7zxV8
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTY5yZSLrj
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXt8XxMbvJ
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDptOr9fgjM
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJphwNkz5r
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSLm89HgFb
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEE3SNDujz
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgkju9jwny
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWufPjKCjb
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After two decades of gestation,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFbV3h8nPz
I've now given birth to my first child,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbFkVPyq6j
The afterbirth has been cleaned,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhqtNQB98p
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdf04gNlj4
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I fell in love with her the moment498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklAJue2xpF
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoMdsvyVrj
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2GczaZ6LX
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnXj8KlGYC
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaZNfBli0S
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7QRgEskk1
Hoping they will love her498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn79ppAYCGd
But knowing they may not.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomBYI33xRi
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhE2eEIUuv
I will home school her, teach her all I know,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MlWFn9B8L
And ready her as best I can to face the world,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Wk4ylHDmP
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ442u2IpyvM
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTit2q00OB
In a year or so if life will allow it,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCM66wFQ8HK
My heart is large and still has room,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oBPYdhlrk
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjZbJkexvL
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: