I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKq0WTdgWJ
Every waking moment and in my every dream,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2uG4NAGMy
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuofcyBK3F
As is still the case although the work is now done.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjaCDj1tDO
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Idealistic young lawyer,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2vlvWeNCB
In his first posting as a dean,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvhE4Hacur
In a for-profit business school,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pXvt1ixQm
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4JweMq44t
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Worked very long hours,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaCXOadYAg
To change what was wrong,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRSkeEAS35
Achieved great success,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3J8FbF7tW
Which all came to naught.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZIFkA6Ncg
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoeiSKIEU3
Stubbornly refusing to accept,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGlGY0HBZW
That which could be changed through simple hard work,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytUwfNuVhN
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XRFlDO4hH
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A classic clash of missions and visions,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuu0jNPKye6
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGOZI0BbXZ
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJf1g0OoNxW
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdJz1lOlFy
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I implemented meaningful changes,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgltidk3GRo
That brought unintended consequences,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4z4YILYhC
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzVdbKqhcl
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOp8cY42eG
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And I learned critical lessons,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAWa3vLEAM
Not just about an industry I did not know,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3npGI9Jpd
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEJSYOjfRq
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNH5tUvr6OB
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfyVgdgFvy
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPNDW4V8ed
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCrmkB2AAX
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARgJ0ZKMBc
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyITdgz4WaZ
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwXRBJ5HzH
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2GsRBFJOr
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhePLRof2O
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHDkTet4dq
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXwMwdlETh
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorFXiXQuyq
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjuhpdQ53B
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After two decades of gestation,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmA7MEo8sgY
I've now given birth to my first child,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MsSJqsK2U
The afterbirth has been cleaned,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BDijiqq3p
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBYP0ADogq
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I fell in love with her the moment175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFkind2GWu
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCrYsxQ2ri
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGY5oXS2ZB
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGPqLHJyYT
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVv2Pubcnr
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydt00PgIbN
Hoping they will love her175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8f9B6xGqF
But knowing they may not.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyvuyKVzvh
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4sG2njVac
I will home school her, teach her all I know,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQ3dqrCjY2
And ready her as best I can to face the world,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9IRParWmb
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QgWmAFGKq
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHfRCHzQU7
In a year or so if life will allow it,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DdlCCsWDP
My heart is large and still has room,175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTLseGGSad
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.175Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGXbSQJndT
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: