I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHSHHgzP40
Every waking moment and in my every dream,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOX15QYMo3
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1REYoCosPr
As is still the case although the work is now done.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82eJXuxsjZ
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Idealistic young lawyer,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPDk9EC4Dk
In his first posting as a dean,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMs5i3NQUTV
In a for-profit business school,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcg2wzCQfLE
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXYVI0SxOr
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Worked very long hours,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQ1gNZn0ZM
To change what was wrong,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6qmJZlqjS
Achieved great success,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpUAzRPdwa
Which all came to naught.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uplsRJ6wL
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTBsjhvAAp
Stubbornly refusing to accept,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsS8oRrieo
That which could be changed through simple hard work,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekGdDbBwEE
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9kwU88Bnd
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A classic clash of missions and visions,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3OzDn2UIV
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtPKZGu3Ft
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVqvo6Lo0y6
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuthmWwQZkn
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I implemented meaningful changes,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtC57vOVqkw
That brought unintended consequences,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizoyrJFhwb
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuyQL0Vq16V
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeaZgG3aS2
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And I learned critical lessons,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJJlbe84CG
Not just about an industry I did not know,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2wQ4S65XM
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRtA2jI7d9
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsNGqLK81i
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYN0r9eGeR
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSd4raeDBX
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3x3vMiixru
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPwCBJOzyL
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLHps40d11
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlFSF1pbDB
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wDCNhkeQF
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWi8Tl6kGkd
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKUOJsjZpa
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMrCKoM5xN
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJOFruwnub
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZ98M4vVBM
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After two decades of gestation,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsGubB5V2O
I've now given birth to my first child,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPVHpcOdKQn
The afterbirth has been cleaned,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfXkkowkjp
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jqHl35LHV
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I fell in love with her the moment115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6QHkb0uRB
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWxjhhN2ZG
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNNDqsDWbR
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsvTpm516H
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUahmA0ogFc
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEup9NBqz8U
Hoping they will love her115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNYyAVViZv
But knowing they may not.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpbxD3xHOO
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bcbbRBemM
I will home school her, teach her all I know,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBN0VTKGTuj
And ready her as best I can to face the world,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kQT4BeoTu
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfa0GDxHtdH
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNWIz7ZgbQ
In a year or so if life will allow it,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQjHa0fJfU
My heart is large and still has room,115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoSnvW0ABt
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YXYEKFmqt
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: