I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡollov5BrJv
Every waking moment and in my every dream,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1215GBCFh
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzUAqH45AC
As is still the case although the work is now done.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5PZdEiOUm
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Idealistic young lawyer,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92S2yS78mE
In his first posting as a dean,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GuTEnMO1c
In a for-profit business school,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdofeJYM5u
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv32nTkrK31
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Worked very long hours,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBd07TDq0ns
To change what was wrong,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqAylhegiI
Achieved great success,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrzfoIZ9up
Which all came to naught.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2S2ctz1pMV
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5aOwWWyGLL
Stubbornly refusing to accept,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JlteSfO7Y
That which could be changed through simple hard work,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWODBppnqS
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xxb6meQW3
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A classic clash of missions and visions,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxw5WFzikR
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLI2lKgCUm
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJZgCa20Dw
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeplBbGAQrD
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I implemented meaningful changes,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrz6psZgYN
That brought unintended consequences,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15VLtB7TTj
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1H2ceEerC
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhQJrZxSk3
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And I learned critical lessons,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfZ9hkNAEg
Not just about an industry I did not know,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgCfTMfAKh
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gahbryfvx
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFLoGP1Yzk
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5Rig4dv3P
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ldGL9iunV
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbh7ZanE7J
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmNgfjfpm4
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkn3SZcO1D
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMB9h31NtjN
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnfZwkbsI8
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGtQzzPjjq
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8d0aiKrYz
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ133SFrIGBr
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OAlCG0yA4
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfDDeckE70
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After two decades of gestation,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwMdUsOOJK
I've now given birth to my first child,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8eSXRR35I
The afterbirth has been cleaned,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjitxkTm0cC
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIHalOxQ8V
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I fell in love with her the moment7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pQND2vr4q
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5IBlskEHKH
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycqo2M5tQO
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrJ4s93lNT
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVU3WDv1vo0
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmD8nYIFK2W
Hoping they will love her7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7T3vXk07aB
But knowing they may not.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsDb9nsHlz
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYSdpDfAVE
I will home school her, teach her all I know,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RhVCJpeWF
And ready her as best I can to face the world,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPaMkXEHBnf
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHX0saXftny
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEiyWcXgl6
In a year or so if life will allow it,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrq39hHPi8K
My heart is large and still has room,7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQoCy59JUu
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.7Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gPKQE92OF
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: