I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzYh26WJ41
Every waking moment and in my every dream,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHmJTZlu87
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhbNYMHzcp
As is still the case although the work is now done.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2bGMtGb25
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Idealistic young lawyer,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJAZD1jsIe
In his first posting as a dean,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJijPusBOq
In a for-profit business school,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhX3W1l65qD
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGLUZuabE8
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Worked very long hours,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAkH1DU95E
To change what was wrong,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNalSejIubd
Achieved great success,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcm7UHg66Jk
Which all came to naught.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIYGejH3Pg
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK84oaK8U7h
Stubbornly refusing to accept,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMkOgbcW9I
That which could be changed through simple hard work,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5Ko6qcxTO
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMgOJwSPOA
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A classic clash of missions and visions,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVVRyULOEe
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRTMSfQnWc
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaHfaFOkQ9
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeB93VGE4Il
64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ze81p1P3t
I implemented meaningful changes,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WQNUPUEco
That brought unintended consequences,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHmOlR3H4u
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNSZn4e3XW
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVe9t03wMBD
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And I learned critical lessons,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8Yg4nnzbJ
Not just about an industry I did not know,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1XQSetBY8
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3mQWUdNGc
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGhjeBcSZ9
64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfhEF5pcHy
I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡep0h9qJcmc
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkBuglIXav
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrTT23H87A
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLceoR1Nl4J
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6H3SJVhdLs
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcq6PxzbDQi
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡispDY067Ri
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BrOITgSJ5
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9VQGPngHA
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwP1Q3N5X8n
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJopCMJfqBj
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNWrEGuftQ
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After two decades of gestation,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5S2ng5MkK
I've now given birth to my first child,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0qOp38mM3
The afterbirth has been cleaned,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqjTfZNZVC
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13na6BMscr
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I fell in love with her the moment64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4Syk1lJTK
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNixjG0xkIi
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGvvFhqJpa
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQomkj6D9W
64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEngwFM5yVg
Now I'm searching for a literary agent64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjsqyRaQWL
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgyXc56UyU
Hoping they will love her64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDgHUnLqDz
But knowing they may not.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBtxD4MDRp
64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeemdVmJPm3
If I can't send her off to finishing school,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMyZoIY1G1
I will home school her, teach her all I know,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQWf5Izw4v
And ready her as best I can to face the world,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFDYCm4PnV
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYj3nSGp33
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV557VGvYAI
In a year or so if life will allow it,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbK9hsnqmR
My heart is large and still has room,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlNSj2nUPe
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFv2wgPlx9T
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: