I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYuwD9ymKQ
Every waking moment and in my every dream,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RqK3V9FHL
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡle3xzgb1f3
As is still the case although the work is now done.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8yf9yOC5C
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Idealistic young lawyer,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPrNLeZz0N
In his first posting as a dean,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9GlnCG5cS
In a for-profit business school,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI68jSe7InV
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv14o62Tq2g
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Worked very long hours,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8nEVor3aA
To change what was wrong,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAN1wNP66g
Achieved great success,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNoxBDoZYL
Which all came to naught.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46ne3I3Cs3
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWmRmoJZMa
Stubbornly refusing to accept,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczKrRZ0BUr
That which could be changed through simple hard work,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpjM7vo3qB
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4h5oDnhVm
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A classic clash of missions and visions,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyu7pbVbaIM
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWxQnH6Osi
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJveh2TB44
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xjs7aR6Gg
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I implemented meaningful changes,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWc0gV0K7mv
That brought unintended consequences,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqK0CRW1Z3
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cxpAI7zXi
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYplMzOppx
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And I learned critical lessons,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoHpBa90pv
Not just about an industry I did not know,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4YFbV3id1
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xyWAu4Zlf
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWP1Ldd2Gm
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlLoBKevc9
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtzGQGZpr5
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQiWo8XFutU
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFuxRvczVr
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIq8KEln9y
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbEWepDUts
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWwesV19Pj
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBPDj3BAbf
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEW8Rb0gWfw
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0cTjbsRWV
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPy4i3rH9B7
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxE6wFdEJG
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After two decades of gestation,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEj3wAqMQ1y
I've now given birth to my first child,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQG9bKlJXqM
The afterbirth has been cleaned,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10XAiWsNhl
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTpnSSGAbL
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I fell in love with her the moment398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH780J592qf
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedCPkTXbzv
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08vuVBBaBY
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9z6lW5Xn0j
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSBkvQje76
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDIF0BRMnB
Hoping they will love her398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbCXU8LU1L
But knowing they may not.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7Zr0HEiVf
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8moWFKHN5i
I will home school her, teach her all I know,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV813Yn7iOv
And ready her as best I can to face the world,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ymb6iTPXD
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFTSFuxFEa
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3Bc42zl9a
In a year or so if life will allow it,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerO8z8r7DN
My heart is large and still has room,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIhJicX6NL
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XjNg30c0p
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: