I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OkCZ2DGoU
Every waking moment and in my every dream,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBrSPnlSOu
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YyQbJQHuW
As is still the case although the work is now done.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8uwx0rlhF
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Idealistic young lawyer,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrrJ6kA0Pq
In his first posting as a dean,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfqASd0zVf
In a for-profit business school,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUT0YlnmcHU
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvalg1ZYkhT
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Worked very long hours,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡns5kLC4Y4J
To change what was wrong,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9KzYU0EjQ
Achieved great success,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3JImEdgwY
Which all came to naught.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYjq7ro9JR
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5kKV5bFri
Stubbornly refusing to accept,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡli4Ty6J8LE
That which could be changed through simple hard work,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6e1NXDNc0
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLc4qHfv8X
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A classic clash of missions and visions,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxItMXCdv51
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BqTfsV7T2
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJLYXIQ0ZN
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3bWVzxmBV
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I implemented meaningful changes,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSs6vSTee5
That brought unintended consequences,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfYIqK8DOj
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8Q38bEGFW
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTF3TShWeO
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And I learned critical lessons,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zdokIrBC1
Not just about an industry I did not know,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoxjmHmjmv
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbvFBnX3i9
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqVlSQCB6w
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DyxZWaSMe
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jULV2WC88
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRruOaHRAiP
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPiAvjRjjr
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKYjgvBPNY
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIRVDLSTzI
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZDVdT0zp0
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCO127AmdA
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJNcDoBjJC
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dLlxUWLwE
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoywyFTVmS
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIPT9GwjVP
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After two decades of gestation,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0prNjyT4fs
I've now given birth to my first child,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FypcVzOn8
The afterbirth has been cleaned,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeyivOdiSr
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2WkD9kZfN
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I fell in love with her the moment169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76j9VVMeLk
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLHDpEQ1zW
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EcUvWrTUF
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuFOYle0SR
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5obevCqcc
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjHhHX8pDX
Hoping they will love her169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwNk3Cl95e
But knowing they may not.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKo0Roo7pK
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPl4MVCnoSd
I will home school her, teach her all I know,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEVf9nOBoV
And ready her as best I can to face the world,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3Vg3w3k1g
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMT0yqe5Rm
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQcNACpx42
In a year or so if life will allow it,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4a7lBNOmT
My heart is large and still has room,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyXyYhpO71
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNgNk5mCyU
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: