I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLU6J690oeR
Every waking moment and in my every dream,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuwQkRPMwY
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡza9yDES3M3
As is still the case although the work is now done.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡak7tqR5hA8
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Idealistic young lawyer,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJNEFfGiJB
In his first posting as a dean,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCaCucx18m
In a for-profit business school,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcKVm7eKus
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuPEYZLjd2
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Worked very long hours,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1dzFnjVY2
To change what was wrong,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs08wETnOj7
Achieved great success,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaouTZoSlZS
Which all came to naught.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkofNeskyRL
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2wVAxhff9
Stubbornly refusing to accept,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQ9yWvaQCv
That which could be changed through simple hard work,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPmeCq2uqO
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kOGM344ms
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A classic clash of missions and visions,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIlxgFzEHK
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYY2CXJusX
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJho2Tv3CxC
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡht1zPyqQdQ
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I implemented meaningful changes,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6snR717OaW
That brought unintended consequences,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmrUcBqLmQ
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtBdzakXRN
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzgJsT76Hq
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And I learned critical lessons,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtk4san31kQ
Not just about an industry I did not know,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd26akVwxMD
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5yiTUd3JE
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC266jMeNCX
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzrVRzwPxE
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ScIHWZQb9
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUe7gszc0FN
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EkiJkSfTA
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyCNXLs75f
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFixaMsXEDx
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHdXy3wMKB
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx37db9DPz6
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiU7hOlIFB
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppHUejtEZM
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQzEyTDdXH
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2048hoUUf
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After two decades of gestation,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtv8rXQS6S5
I've now given birth to my first child,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2YVLZHBsIh
The afterbirth has been cleaned,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAxQWuWfyB
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wvftpU8eC
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I fell in love with her the moment395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnvjDyzs1V
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmNjUFp7rz
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpjYauR8cN
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWWEeGJMHG
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnm5suHxKqr
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cEIK0y4zJ
Hoping they will love her395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L0W0sk1D6
But knowing they may not.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwIrueWYD2
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdmVTbeJMX
I will home school her, teach her all I know,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBKWlMwOPA
And ready her as best I can to face the world,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyiSIXvWenk
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBM6qRdLQb8
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrctjyLkV6J
In a year or so if life will allow it,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6mcNc0ASy
My heart is large and still has room,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHHFMi5Yal
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOJRZaIUy2
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: