I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qlE6Wj1Fm
Every waking moment and in my every dream,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFh8MYLUawZ
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLXHZtWFVo
As is still the case although the work is now done.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJWNF5o46Q
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Idealistic young lawyer,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81NDOfECMP
In his first posting as a dean,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAa6Sqyxas
In a for-profit business school,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuheU4DwCZy
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovQm1jNfR0
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Worked very long hours,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlg3pUIqtgZ
To change what was wrong,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEd6bBm0RC9
Achieved great success,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZX0FUiCho
Which all came to naught.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PqMKENUTu
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJfh42RDOO
Stubbornly refusing to accept,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIVxKV8KtL
That which could be changed through simple hard work,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCnS9LBqMC
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMpvdh6pi5
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A classic clash of missions and visions,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuMPg36HZQ
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtfUcjPLaw
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1DjC0ljGz
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbAAVU9Uoi
399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1S4GA9sCxr
I implemented meaningful changes,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3Vtuv7uyp
That brought unintended consequences,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjZr4frf6k
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3AFq8sN0i
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZ6jxMuopq
399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gnFmlFbGU
And I learned critical lessons,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaGxyEtPUr
Not just about an industry I did not know,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPQV6DzWX7
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1PNegsbFQ
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxfq2iWs29
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazZPqXbaJy
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3xW8iC8nR
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTepxIHd97
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDRYPrDPqX
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3jf1Mce61
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2iZFZOpnxu
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpd3BdQiIHY
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUj3hKjPcYU
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCesTDXxCc3
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjCukYhOah
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4209MCt3Pq
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1TW70svdx
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After two decades of gestation,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3s98IvxHq0
I've now given birth to my first child,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTA5w2VKDXA
The afterbirth has been cleaned,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuvorHjxKF
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oKBQgc0UH
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I fell in love with her the moment399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJb4v7Kb5w
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUYEaQbP7E
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBzXXULDem
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfNPx1ApuE
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDdqAqMIRT
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8WfrP9Ecv
Hoping they will love her399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQ0ODeh8IW
But knowing they may not.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡackkwRnpOn
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKurKchgk7V
I will home school her, teach her all I know,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctATUFai22
And ready her as best I can to face the world,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7G7HiZ3x4t
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYR6i5ZcFN
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MIj4LxoWv
In a year or so if life will allow it,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXbEPaCTuJ
My heart is large and still has room,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlw0qVrZwu
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrADTTh9GB
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: