I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGU9JHu3RvA
Every waking moment and in my every dream,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvhq4ZQ0WQ
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11nPUNcHX6
As is still the case although the work is now done.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhAtio4XRU
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Idealistic young lawyer,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7E0Xgvg7To
In his first posting as a dean,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQPFWWzVki
In a for-profit business school,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcQ9TPkdK4
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6sPaT39hF
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Worked very long hours,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZasS04gO8
To change what was wrong,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMO6c9cteM
Achieved great success,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKTvE6N39I
Which all came to naught.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCmEMCAbWe
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08kEjX2Uh2
Stubbornly refusing to accept,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswElnGT5xZ
That which could be changed through simple hard work,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisgJQ5HZRr
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDjpDp7Bj0
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A classic clash of missions and visions,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyT5VuGQD3
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOrzkoKvKI
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfnsySqjnH
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCx0hXStuHI
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I implemented meaningful changes,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSS5Y69DwM
That brought unintended consequences,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWTjThW9QN
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5JjGZO6fT
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt41mpjMyu3
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And I learned critical lessons,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21Gy5cODDW
Not just about an industry I did not know,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzPUkc2UBQ
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0fFVOuy4V
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNKgLGDwk8
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQzLde4byb
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAFVmwtIGW
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiI82tfv2qf
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCl6xjRKbyR
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkf6oIXGMje
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXClReNRkiF
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmz4iV8Kx6o
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5FHCAl2fD
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3iU2XoME9
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAh5Lw215yb
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMobQIbBJ1
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVc1w0GOxKa
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After two decades of gestation,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3zh6NWnKr
I've now given birth to my first child,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvk7mVX2RP7
The afterbirth has been cleaned,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4W5Xm09ex
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64NjuttXz6
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I fell in love with her the moment399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5Tv5tzym6
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnR6PKo1ox
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgv47dWfqz
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4v7di1ZkNc
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr757MzBMk8
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtYi7TZKxg
Hoping they will love her399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWzaCpK2Ke
But knowing they may not.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVJ53KmV3G
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSGtBJYLee
I will home school her, teach her all I know,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtRLDTijG5
And ready her as best I can to face the world,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUK5WDCOBZ0
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LkOwQ1FWn
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmP83lh5n5
In a year or so if life will allow it,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4C5XhTLiAq
My heart is large and still has room,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnslmgwunD
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRC49yYsDi7
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: