I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeIQJRRxJa
Every waking moment and in my every dream,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdZgr2Gpfi
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLywJAGVA6
As is still the case although the work is now done.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8QV8hjnhC
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Idealistic young lawyer,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoL34XT5vIu
In his first posting as a dean,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS55BEmilIE
In a for-profit business school,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpizyA2jmho
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquKmY2UQUO
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Worked very long hours,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdOTguNYBS
To change what was wrong,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgEUAOSzIv
Achieved great success,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW09wiWCgSr
Which all came to naught.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynO2n2OjSw
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJF5tFB0wZQ
Stubbornly refusing to accept,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu07jiDMbKb
That which could be changed through simple hard work,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rZ8Ejyxnj
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zG8Dv8s6I
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A classic clash of missions and visions,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeW9ykjWjq
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMu3IGjsesb
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjk6R6CVks4
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLroWoP8av
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I implemented meaningful changes,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDk00xgFw1
That brought unintended consequences,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bUJ6no3EW
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTdE3fwHg9
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Cohx3NLPm
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And I learned critical lessons,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhrEHOcUWX
Not just about an industry I did not know,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRXYY0X8gs
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15nn5j5nrw
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUh1EvJnDj
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWgB6jNb3H
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYDteZDp3m
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCsq7YAzIE
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqYegjCrgT
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhCMkvdml8
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YxAfw5WpP
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3yZ74FiXZ
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyQiMNQYO3
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyrkBSMIRP
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEDRfbz6YR
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmJmwJUogR
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiFYomnHEh
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After two decades of gestation,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqw5fUmEGOA
I've now given birth to my first child,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZ5apvJ25f
The afterbirth has been cleaned,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhqVJjXuvD
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AdmgixdJM
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I fell in love with her the moment61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡla2sBRiP9f
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTYjlDp9d3
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vvFRmNgPP
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZR8D5MyQ8
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQq35f9URjW
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfa4rVbEOV
Hoping they will love her61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh57ayOG5S7
But knowing they may not.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYr5DI74L2
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSzxIUphsG
I will home school her, teach her all I know,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9dOI59IyT
And ready her as best I can to face the world,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrO5gpyaAW
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnSqx5Ahw8
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxPfPSg3IE
In a year or so if life will allow it,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4q0K9a6AFw
My heart is large and still has room,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYOrWzzGIc
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9SrF26hgY
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: