I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3CF6jJ9FL
Every waking moment and in my every dream,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfJeToA2u2
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllrfMXRwhC
As is still the case although the work is now done.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgghU6dq21y
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Idealistic young lawyer,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7xxZa21xh
In his first posting as a dean,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJ2VBbEp40
In a for-profit business school,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQee3dowcq
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZybj4lWxL
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Worked very long hours,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOA4r9hcb9
To change what was wrong,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIU1vJR1ci
Achieved great success,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0yq9E0G0B
Which all came to naught.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlhA7xNcPO
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb083DkWgA2
Stubbornly refusing to accept,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6qLjkQNWf
That which could be changed through simple hard work,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIN7TwNycr
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwXkdzGXQQ
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A classic clash of missions and visions,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzfNtadUXh
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gONSFhXWQ
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxbjMFaFkW
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqJtr2qRkQ
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I implemented meaningful changes,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XRLwVFkMp
That brought unintended consequences,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8Nj0n5f3q
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKs0dRmQO5
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡne6SJjMkvz
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And I learned critical lessons,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqQD9OuXrJ
Not just about an industry I did not know,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEUxnPqXSg
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡco4YaQvNMH
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt20YYLSqF8
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxSZKI5TWz
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDj5xsOhGx
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXBdqO6g24
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEcrLLTf0i
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqkMnxvmrY
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEw1xWzmQT
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfndc7sFUYQ
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSM5EiqQJoB
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudgN0siHWo
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkTpA5OHxC
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwmhgLe9cM
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZFmRwCGKB
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After two decades of gestation,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnXrb2kDsq
I've now given birth to my first child,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBI4XBl4VN
The afterbirth has been cleaned,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmcMWjSfDy
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCZ5SaneHa
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I fell in love with her the moment151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcCztw0tef
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFAXQJiZFP
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX49vLY7hdZ
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqutBl7MZfX
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5k8wPj34w
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6blqHNAjNs
Hoping they will love her151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGEFUjfqei
But knowing they may not.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICP0Vefgjz
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zibqTUDYW
I will home school her, teach her all I know,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OSGeG43Uz
And ready her as best I can to face the world,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwnN8GDBvR
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xxGkrTHvv
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgjUjfNZNq
In a year or so if life will allow it,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0nmDwhDaQ
My heart is large and still has room,151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66Wdewh7qw
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrMjsW1FqH
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: