I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZ3sfSNn5y
Every waking moment and in my every dream,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AbKPipzLD
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuohL8xvxx7
As is still the case although the work is now done.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtImGVqf2QN
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Idealistic young lawyer,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiCPYFHARq
In his first posting as a dean,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxu0T3F8KQ
In a for-profit business school,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPCyMSn0IG
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6UoxoJ46N
496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynnwf7tUWz
Worked very long hours,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvE1HryVusK
To change what was wrong,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7iZ9oZ7RS
Achieved great success,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5xPDSoavS
Which all came to naught.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8Hj3g3DE8
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5m2IIeo8vR
Stubbornly refusing to accept,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKgbjbYGRd
That which could be changed through simple hard work,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tKHv6IPUI
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1JSCqI1uA
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A classic clash of missions and visions,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LE9CeNMBS
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gXCSCCxpo
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsHWZFJBf5
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxrlqVb9DO
496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6sZJjGZgH
I implemented meaningful changes,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UsLWfv9iU
That brought unintended consequences,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMXCXoODrh
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpEmGbLQWQ
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6GgUfgpnG
496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuRbLxw9Dt
And I learned critical lessons,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjqEGlUuKY
Not just about an industry I did not know,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTPQZhhn01
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYDtLXXU0J
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UJeAWiDXW
496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA75TdopK7S
I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFuMRx4fgvb
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQQmn9APPb
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1f9saeNgUQ
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WtjbdMYfR
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQENtBJ1ij
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQXwTMqICN
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42AAQGG6CC
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIhSzqpy9H
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMP64Sfvf4
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm84LrJqAX
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyK6aD5MTrj
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ouTN7IFNy
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After two decades of gestation,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwuF7U9200
I've now given birth to my first child,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpJj2SfbeC
The afterbirth has been cleaned,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBTSlZAeBo
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgI1RPzUCE
496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99V4u8lYFT
I fell in love with her the moment496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡinlX3vhtlq
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5rAXqhz3M
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT3ha4VlXl0
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8XkIPzgUT
496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdixN0EBekr
Now I'm searching for a literary agent496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RDtNIgtJL
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqND7h8R6Q
Hoping they will love her496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CxzKgegJd
But knowing they may not.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHNu46Qv5T
496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡod2a0mH2zy
If I can't send her off to finishing school,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6DNdfgNGU
I will home school her, teach her all I know,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhNpZFs6ac
And ready her as best I can to face the world,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzkKzsfo18
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULzcxUm94w
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHvwuqHDHv
In a year or so if life will allow it,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF11LDuNKk9
My heart is large and still has room,496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHz7YLm4oy
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.496Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyU6g9xqCc
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: