I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KUdZJUvbi
Every waking moment and in my every dream,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj16qocAnDM
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMiagRli5X
As is still the case although the work is now done.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQnpyQ8pc6
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Idealistic young lawyer,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzwZv8UKoF
In his first posting as a dean,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MsdZnG7yK
In a for-profit business school,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOuEJuR4Np
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62BngNG7RQ
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Worked very long hours,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdvOglUuwN
To change what was wrong,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKqZs7ZHkh
Achieved great success,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSKDfziLgb
Which all came to naught.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTfXs6DBbH
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11DiQjF81L
Stubbornly refusing to accept,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTkFWJtEJF
That which could be changed through simple hard work,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdkpTkMQSXn
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4N0RiPOFk
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A classic clash of missions and visions,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqQ23O5XMm
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVeU6fURHo
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO13dRbDiq8
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLfHcGKfBC
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I implemented meaningful changes,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgit90QnjFH
That brought unintended consequences,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02ghSypVnn
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE08ffjoAnZ
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJioXdtRlW
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And I learned critical lessons,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjJZGg8wx8
Not just about an industry I did not know,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49FJ9AGtiO
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAXZBITtWE
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdZRVXaqay
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRmlUPk86ji
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMM3dUz65sK
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuIXqVuNrF
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nCLqfAx0S
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrS7DlwB1i
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ptov0uLAE
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfDHGNiyLZ
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZ0OssNaXe
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsylE75I2u
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiK5ySEJom
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqYEiuzf3Q
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITrk1sw5h7
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After two decades of gestation,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDR6u9cddn
I've now given birth to my first child,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjIGuWLuqJ
The afterbirth has been cleaned,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZP5XZyojV
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvd1Ra716Z
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I fell in love with her the moment185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTUdApF0xK
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kbERP2Em8
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKE8MGrKv8
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcKokxTV26
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeSRB4AyEP
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0oKu89WqU
Hoping they will love her185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0Pxxi3Z6a
But knowing they may not.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQ1U3tVYKW
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBQxaGnlE1
I will home school her, teach her all I know,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7bdaFdjzO
And ready her as best I can to face the world,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBOySdPGxK
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHssche9RBa
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfmv7QrOoO
In a year or so if life will allow it,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9BRiUCkD7
My heart is large and still has room,185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJ8h39M69X
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.185Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3i4KlPI4d
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: