I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSopURfJcVx
Every waking moment and in my every dream,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1K0KA92ET
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXwDepwQvb
As is still the case although the work is now done.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JkM2Rbe9x
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Idealistic young lawyer,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVfndAsuPn
In his first posting as a dean,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDkBGdGpwW
In a for-profit business school,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOy0k6ce5EF
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRp48m9CaK
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Worked very long hours,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFIbGX7ABY
To change what was wrong,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstnoT5HFgI
Achieved great success,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJ7OxRPpVx
Which all came to naught.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TGV0LqjPe
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PpItTjxOO
Stubbornly refusing to accept,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBwkPXAow5
That which could be changed through simple hard work,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xURuVd55Z
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHW8SaZoHNy
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A classic clash of missions and visions,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1h2SSDnwU
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrLU693Tyu
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJC2uMP3GWD
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGtffjcutI
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I implemented meaningful changes,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNUVbwrqDT
That brought unintended consequences,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCs3k5teXnO
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeba9q0LQM
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrcljJMA9c
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And I learned critical lessons,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YhymYAiyX
Not just about an industry I did not know,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7EqJEBjiJ
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhw29J5feZ
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6TRFuyi4q
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqtJUIMY5X
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtMebHpGeS
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGp5KjxIIE5
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVMntTi32C
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0bhKRL5j1
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNaHpnKgs6
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44szmMnNf7
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSL6vApMBsN
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkD2Q22FqHd
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPIDeHWaNN
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwe914YjGR
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJZldCrPMi
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After two decades of gestation,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8zp8RZFXi
I've now given birth to my first child,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqDuk77Tyq
The afterbirth has been cleaned,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUfDvjB9RZ
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcy541eKIyY
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I fell in love with her the moment495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIw4CKBGPaz
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHA4HGMjW3
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7ZaoHpl7n
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UoVaSmsJX
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwG5tqJM5u
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWn0oCrrYPF
Hoping they will love her495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA4llWZDNt0
But knowing they may not.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqOHe8BoPC
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIR3OZgMJlz
I will home school her, teach her all I know,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVWgY0fyqA
And ready her as best I can to face the world,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgM3UHGDinT
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfzeMVZ7PT
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZT1WW5tkx0
In a year or so if life will allow it,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLY4rM2h29r
My heart is large and still has room,495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCy23oGwTv
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.495Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPMkc0Xbdi
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: