I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fRIuhnmCN
Every waking moment and in my every dream,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQSctzDoh4
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32G5GngLpz
As is still the case although the work is now done.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLq8ricrx5
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Idealistic young lawyer,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqEs7fKKlE
In his first posting as a dean,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeaaV8BRkT
In a for-profit business school,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqjcdc2HlT
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxemgXUek7B
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Worked very long hours,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5UbWoCDwo
To change what was wrong,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQz72PPiFIa
Achieved great success,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvgIc2geAn
Which all came to naught.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyvDxlU6PN
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oVTzUo6eJ
Stubbornly refusing to accept,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUeUC5tpNr
That which could be changed through simple hard work,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbqr67RKNJ
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2lEhKCRML
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A classic clash of missions and visions,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnA6cAqxvE
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppCdhAliqG
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrraUPSAGaz
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUWcTaaLlQ
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I implemented meaningful changes,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7YkmrIQEs
That brought unintended consequences,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwwqyNS6GV
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT84LBadIXU
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyaXjwM9iM
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And I learned critical lessons,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJtzrxrJFQ
Not just about an industry I did not know,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAGKnejuu7
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcHR9kB1yR
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkmpgWRM2A
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBLzuXQQZ0
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhd7pUs52T
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YNnVonz2K
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMhxXCdPAs
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpb4pKeBtW8
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxWqOqu7jm
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7jNjjwev1
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrI6PMcGwWh
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9AE6lNZOu
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBVbyqvIgC
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuu5057hV7
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRqwcdFNaV
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After two decades of gestation,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqf0aZuXdVb
I've now given birth to my first child,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡME3tSWyOYg
The afterbirth has been cleaned,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2bqE0fjix
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIipK3JmcP
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I fell in love with her the moment71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkKSAaNHuZ
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Au5NDeC4z
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQMGE1XZaJ
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqRrLZVpHp
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjP45fP7Yq
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRc6IJOBsk
Hoping they will love her71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWwV2blo0Q
But knowing they may not.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhxWyWO65X
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CWenE9Qp0
I will home school her, teach her all I know,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVLBNJIAg7
And ready her as best I can to face the world,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdCgJ5tyRM
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVfQe8QKNG
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDE2ODrVFW
In a year or so if life will allow it,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvkxP6ccda
My heart is large and still has room,71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrI6y51KQQ
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.71Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKg7DQaC3rj
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: