I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhtwxM6NZA
Every waking moment and in my every dream,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW96ZJwiHOm
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcxlL1e09k
As is still the case although the work is now done.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnfKHoDZU5
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Idealistic young lawyer,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkILA9LQso
In his first posting as a dean,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdqX3l4zgJ
In a for-profit business school,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0QTrXEQB1
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtc13GWmgJb
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Worked very long hours,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqx4N8tpVs
To change what was wrong,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGFABCeKAs
Achieved great success,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPBbIhbk8u
Which all came to naught.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmEnzXn66K
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzUnjii97U
Stubbornly refusing to accept,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmNOjNe3cP
That which could be changed through simple hard work,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyBYDHWnKp
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpMZqvHzsn
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A classic clash of missions and visions,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAdcPNewhk
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzWG25GuTu
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQ9w2l6Dml
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRMuhfhHhj
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I implemented meaningful changes,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchoQasZVzw
That brought unintended consequences,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEQNczqVHY
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurbLz86dX4
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxLKdbnOQi
192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvgyJVdfgT
And I learned critical lessons,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHOBRZcCXz
Not just about an industry I did not know,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoZfJES9Gr
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtBohWvS2B
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dDz1i6giQ
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSYytvwqXP
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7xT0ZZ48y
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkIfTRyFlC
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxFWm45Yll
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxA4ewWcsW
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIGyADCPAM
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvU7eSRfPK
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDpv2t1If8
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Dfcv9CuPR
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaXuOlANL2
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTcJwmMuk9
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3ZqPefhgT
192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXmlGFD402
After two decades of gestation,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARaSbNumOk
I've now given birth to my first child,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOoJZnDvhu
The afterbirth has been cleaned,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVVB2xSYud
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMF8DBCLcQ8
192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlPew9C1Cs
I fell in love with her the moment192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcpnSkg8yw
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUUhfhkyJz
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7OHy82zIw
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjamzKu0Qt
192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fhk74D4Vb
Now I'm searching for a literary agent192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53Dx0oK2Qd
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46dgZwNfEj
Hoping they will love her192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9n8AVjXy2j
But knowing they may not.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtXT1pUIuU
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRMXezFNXD
I will home school her, teach her all I know,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWtnMvdog2
And ready her as best I can to face the world,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTk5rIHR2pt
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4eu1kDW7F
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlmBbOJKly
In a year or so if life will allow it,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81aFUNAkCt
My heart is large and still has room,192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm49YKGiQCi
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.192Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsxuTfGso2
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: