I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nXp2BtaxA
Every waking moment and in my every dream,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22bAXv4rF6
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQC3cYKUEf
As is still the case although the work is now done.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdlfSOBBwy
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Idealistic young lawyer,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fmNv8hJ53
In his first posting as a dean,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yS90dIlvi
In a for-profit business school,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwgW0RGoX4
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXCHrto7fk
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Worked very long hours,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPYDv0ddL4
To change what was wrong,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0qrOpEKer
Achieved great success,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6CmhPLjU7
Which all came to naught.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDpyzOiyHq
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMNtESV8Mi
Stubbornly refusing to accept,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgsl6uRudP
That which could be changed through simple hard work,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsh67X0uZ9
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA75eemK5Te
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A classic clash of missions and visions,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyFLOUhOJQ
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZQgW4FaCe
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQZIi8oBSl
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhEf2YTAZ5
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I implemented meaningful changes,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAC11IRq2KH
That brought unintended consequences,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz80nwDbLiF
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdfjMLks6Y
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSLpmGlZPo
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And I learned critical lessons,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIqqoe2btl
Not just about an industry I did not know,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uxe2OXgHu
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTskSlveXOB
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpoG4skLfd
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2j0jXQJkl
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25kKDeew42
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIz5D3yBft
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqidpNbl1R4
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVizCOQOvV2
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVotdmTiBwn
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZrXLS6k11
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGU3tQg8xx5
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXd0xxCzIN
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqxKVcnqTg
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHgsBOmIq7
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGg5HX89MIw
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After two decades of gestation,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiy6Cn8FOE
I've now given birth to my first child,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9V2J7e7se
The afterbirth has been cleaned,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtt8sXNVmZT
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0pnedWPkK
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I fell in love with her the moment162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dxOazTDnq
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8W61ulRs9
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XwXqW3TSI
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWif4tblK9
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbiN5jiXlid
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8DNG9a5I0
Hoping they will love her162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dv9oszDjW
But knowing they may not.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iaJCOjJE6
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDUV8YeJmz
I will home school her, teach her all I know,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGE9zZ9qO5
And ready her as best I can to face the world,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHK2DAnlwyK
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbYcihWxBV
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjFXcGouFd
In a year or so if life will allow it,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLijfDDRuPI
My heart is large and still has room,162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhY2L8EfBk
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.162Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fWWbiO9Lm
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: