I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33ZN9U6obX
Every waking moment and in my every dream,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUbgx2rkhD
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwebhcQiIEP
As is still the case although the work is now done.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoePIYSUDdo
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Idealistic young lawyer,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNDBXZLrUA
In his first posting as a dean,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnemBbZb0zG
In a for-profit business school,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05vDO2ETHP
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPepBZkOwNh
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Worked very long hours,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8yNfNNYAs
To change what was wrong,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4RUiKZNwo
Achieved great success,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTOTImjJug
Which all came to naught.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZytXqlFSe
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0uSUp19EH
Stubbornly refusing to accept,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGgUOLPxBA
That which could be changed through simple hard work,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYDX4EgeFS
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1UvFQzrna
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A classic clash of missions and visions,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡph0gihOEiF
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9B6ftqBbA
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNuerdYdC9
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBqXAOw90m
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I implemented meaningful changes,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuESsD7R39
That brought unintended consequences,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Urw74fo1x
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEwr7Hvxwx
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEqvjSxGn4
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And I learned critical lessons,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnL29fCJ8V
Not just about an industry I did not know,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mlSeobCaL
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJ8dhfZTZA
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95otq91RrA
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbOLYhRkTG
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0buABsc78j
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjyj7HFt5r
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡql69P1qcIx
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUcm6kmgj4
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIq4sU3MaaI
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtiWSeIDo5
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2t3DklOiB
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPhQ4mW2f6
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dHrXCYeSs
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCGab856Mm
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Rl3Ky7kVF
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After two decades of gestation,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCKAfGwvf6
I've now given birth to my first child,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMDpuGmHYj
The afterbirth has been cleaned,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DUCAR5v0j
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQCxkLBQ5V
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I fell in love with her the moment399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr583Hz4TLn
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvj5w6Tw7Ru
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4trEyC3BP
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGsyDkX3MIB
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczgamCg1KO
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJcMy0Mgh4
Hoping they will love her399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUQgbHYby5
But knowing they may not.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34dFOvT0GU
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRUCAqQ104
I will home school her, teach her all I know,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SUwOXV2KP
And ready her as best I can to face the world,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRyRykrs5O
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcAAXjMdbC6
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqqlZwkFOk
In a year or so if life will allow it,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSeUFKJDJb
My heart is large and still has room,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNoN7sOlTB
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdkZlxIe0g
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: