I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgdtNegHAr
Every waking moment and in my every dream,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByK7akKgIE
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejQOs7AFMx
As is still the case although the work is now done.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdILYX2aH2q
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Idealistic young lawyer,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIP8KtmOfU
In his first posting as a dean,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rmjg6bhh6
In a for-profit business school,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nzV2Fo9l8
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPIqBZz7Yt
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Worked very long hours,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgdh4x99yr
To change what was wrong,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXSGYbPoOK
Achieved great success,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbJBJ8DKNL
Which all came to naught.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArUIzfG3Qb
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLSqkrY31C
Stubbornly refusing to accept,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm1cUiMTy7
That which could be changed through simple hard work,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmUj3GaAEP
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYxdr7gLvk
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A classic clash of missions and visions,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalMtTXhuPr
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHQ7bG4qL8
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM236Vqk2h0
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoK8fT0q1MW
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I implemented meaningful changes,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2yWzqZc4w
That brought unintended consequences,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQMygIYHCl
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdMbVXEqfB
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oUs2NNyxd
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And I learned critical lessons,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKh4YTNZG2
Not just about an industry I did not know,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtEbZZBRtI
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0b15AfhsT
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2usYBpXo2G
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwtOBTWpph
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKgBTIwT81
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVHU1viQfH
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiLgOATkHuJ
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDctRiDwvX
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiRG5rMxhJ
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxc25nHNR8Y
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSD8v4tKPC
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcL8EqVaXEN
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk56O2I0oaY
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TJZnEe5Ra
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3N0IficwPP
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After two decades of gestation,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxtDS9v5GY
I've now given birth to my first child,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAS9IHQXYKT
The afterbirth has been cleaned,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBNJy529an
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWECGoh8eyj
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I fell in love with her the moment116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPZkjRWAPI
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLcKcjgcjZ
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65webQYITC
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVndM3MFMU
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBAenLyuz9
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMT2z6Yzet
Hoping they will love her116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeT2xHt5o86
But knowing they may not.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeojoISrAN
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcp1TI8RNY
I will home school her, teach her all I know,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHcYQ2LDw4
And ready her as best I can to face the world,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9yRZkTkbM
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGYVQGPPgB
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GbSyOsDQ9
In a year or so if life will allow it,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTe2sz97iYd
My heart is large and still has room,116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBe96CswG15
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.116Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ad2UGXprs
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: