I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDtkekxlWa
Every waking moment and in my every dream,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFLiu6v4pN
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTZAjAokqL
As is still the case although the work is now done.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYMIn8mNUc
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Idealistic young lawyer,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPZjlQ2KGX
In his first posting as a dean,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uKcUMyPII
In a for-profit business school,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66BWYnaa1y
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83gfJfdjci
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Worked very long hours,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88FH4aCz7X
To change what was wrong,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8O4uAxMP8Q
Achieved great success,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoeMYKUADA
Which all came to naught.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIg9T4Y27Vs
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gVm3Yml0T
Stubbornly refusing to accept,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1S7z3APAS
That which could be changed through simple hard work,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjE4Be4qDzs
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgD9HPmJ3ve
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A classic clash of missions and visions,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhelY8r0kf
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wLjJNJOup
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgMZOrO9ox
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFehpAbfqps
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I implemented meaningful changes,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMLz34GH84
That brought unintended consequences,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHAnbeRNoZ
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFU7bW1hQR
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdSmvdCAZg
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And I learned critical lessons,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkbGENpHHj
Not just about an industry I did not know,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUVGZCOewX
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtF7hUSJqw8
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyu1ncZFVCB
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1ZyHswUQi
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9wBzpXOQK
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAsBsvb7Hb
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQ8eJbKEMX
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9J3XfDNUN
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRSEJWLEuW
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBD1MOi6eFv
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWv1ZJ3a4c4
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4xu714J9A
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEmIL8lIbL
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nuDHq76V6
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4pS6Tt0t5
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After two decades of gestation,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghB8nXKOlH
I've now given birth to my first child,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOEAHJmAtj
The afterbirth has been cleaned,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Qh1ALQp16
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqPAXIKUDs
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I fell in love with her the moment397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbXDhFta7g
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAniovFR3i
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMl42yqycm1
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lfVrykjeQ
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZny5Sakj6b
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgXTgMnqx8
Hoping they will love her397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHoMwnG8q8A
But knowing they may not.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMQAowKa0X
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTPvFJj5Hk
I will home school her, teach her all I know,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbq7KZBsh0Z
And ready her as best I can to face the world,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyOGaD3AXU
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIUi6x8IdH
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDirvLfDtZ
In a year or so if life will allow it,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiheSQubx2H
My heart is large and still has room,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxT5GNxf3NT
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwYGiwggpN
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: