I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz3Ij568rs
Every waking moment and in my every dream,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWQ2myL6Ay
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNPIJkMsSI
As is still the case although the work is now done.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2qBHBdI3g
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Idealistic young lawyer,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2dy4vmwqo
In his first posting as a dean,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFhEpMLOl0
In a for-profit business school,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5v1rAF6Ln6
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnOdcNoM9D
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Worked very long hours,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwXyhzjuEw
To change what was wrong,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPJQbUgSCp
Achieved great success,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEAKOz8BP2
Which all came to naught.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnW62m5oFC
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB99go3W8ih
Stubbornly refusing to accept,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2k2m7ejNL
That which could be changed through simple hard work,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6Dt2rKqSU
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6TGPXjzRL
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A classic clash of missions and visions,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBd7UYt4Ar
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQvMspsilA
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjfbV1mMrC
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXjxswspZB
396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAYfKsGjJK
I implemented meaningful changes,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JzgDqIeuO
That brought unintended consequences,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOlQVYLDBp
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJTxcrunwE
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHFj6bfRk7
396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavccnsSKPx
And I learned critical lessons,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKE3zg3l1sx
Not just about an industry I did not know,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2dSCGNzH5
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoLMSubfN3
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9lIa8y89x
396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4z5MH11dl
I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUZgXS8wFm
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUd0dZUVfRu
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyP3WR7atR
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡks3SDQTQaj
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4EAAkPHAf
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYL865e6KqI
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRJczRtk64
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszXLY7KAYl
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUELAbABSyk
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOtxpijf05
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44pPej06WN
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5INIP1nb50
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After two decades of gestation,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrgdigXkYF
I've now given birth to my first child,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6XqTEXPWt
The afterbirth has been cleaned,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLrkeqmeM4
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxaSrdJJf6Q
396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4QdIyraTI
I fell in love with her the moment396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRENkwSYjn
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbidf5KbsE
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDzzkygLqW
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wUv9I8kno
396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NfsQqX2Kd
Now I'm searching for a literary agent396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOEAikwgJZ
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGzBCvFoBX
Hoping they will love her396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJA3FtNp5b
But knowing they may not.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg86DghkEdd
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCrY6SqFwD
I will home school her, teach her all I know,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyV65sS5o9
And ready her as best I can to face the world,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSw3Bp6LSHu
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfD5qLdGKqI
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoT6M2cDdeb
In a year or so if life will allow it,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJF6cOLyhe5
My heart is large and still has room,396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtoR9Udews
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.396Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3em3jxYHX1
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: