I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgAUHREnEN
Every waking moment and in my every dream,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKGS5BDyYV
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLWujogrFg
As is still the case although the work is now done.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoHSpCfziu
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Idealistic young lawyer,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBOVNyD5wb
In his first posting as a dean,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHwcvmQE9I
In a for-profit business school,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DbRZkhEAP
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2pFz1HMDQs
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Worked very long hours,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7GGKh1vNc
To change what was wrong,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmILWlddeG8
Achieved great success,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLK3fppqS2
Which all came to naught.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZcMeAJYue
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0omOxn1ee
Stubbornly refusing to accept,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50mtYr698Q
That which could be changed through simple hard work,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSSJvmUKwV
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSRITVZbUd
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A classic clash of missions and visions,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ii7RzeVxf
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqokvBx8WY
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgj3tN6yRX
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2dKVHdABY
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I implemented meaningful changes,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQIAFwEJhb
That brought unintended consequences,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tUBiNz5S0
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKRJeZLxHI
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0m1DbA2M1M
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And I learned critical lessons,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOXGQ7Icuh
Not just about an industry I did not know,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktjJFiyP5q
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylKckakTpd
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJyrRGmWbp
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DXWizKpzI
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcU6QX0Josa
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzaQTxBZJG
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrZ7pYvpxA
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCeU1Vkvr6
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOWgqhE7oF
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyhAfZB3Hw
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0yLSklHOY
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbLmNk4E3l
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7idaTQ6XA
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOAFxnBZW3
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPhzUbZIQt
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After two decades of gestation,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzdjQ8c21K
I've now given birth to my first child,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXYrIKOvES
The afterbirth has been cleaned,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvtmXUnVRT
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkjndfSIgW
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I fell in love with her the moment397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2nfPqylSz
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhvUmO1Sj3
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeB72Ol713W
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvpRX85gUp
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf21qNh1yCr
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVRkBjXIu0
Hoping they will love her397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL02CcqdqEY
But knowing they may not.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqM0gkZGfk8
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2a3bxMLO7
I will home school her, teach her all I know,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEx1GfPX2Iq
And ready her as best I can to face the world,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmn56MmFd1
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYOT6swLqM
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtmiWwyoeA
In a year or so if life will allow it,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwOadaLoOm
My heart is large and still has room,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUDEykJNft
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ136SKGJUqG
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: