I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy19CJvzOCW
Every waking moment and in my every dream,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkT9FkhZYoY
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmi2rQ4zwD
As is still the case although the work is now done.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AugtmYUYa
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Idealistic young lawyer,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDNSwknHek
In his first posting as a dean,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUK3LeKjwC
In a for-profit business school,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoEW9BCmV2
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrfOdGWcRM
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Worked very long hours,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapWchM4y2W
To change what was wrong,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkbBP930SY
Achieved great success,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAs6i2Y6qk
Which all came to naught.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oTkzmEGsi
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfrp8TU4if
Stubbornly refusing to accept,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmi06z8MSo
That which could be changed through simple hard work,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRiOF7snCeb
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDwa0PVKvl
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A classic clash of missions and visions,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fcemf0uIs
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUdyMVmCtj
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKCIF4MNxY
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuFNU76Lbl
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I implemented meaningful changes,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBsDb2P8629
That brought unintended consequences,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqs6g3U6nou
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0r1cbNbSZc
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6Fy0VXzi5
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And I learned critical lessons,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1QTpuCDEE
Not just about an industry I did not know,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46UbQAOXLr
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMpTklWHMl
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmsUUpyvDV
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpJUMOuJAs
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazjjnYnKOd
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xVMdq2CYB
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGL2SqDB3J
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUi2MSplKek
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIp8hkaT1qF
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVKAec241y
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnjL2RH2Zi
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyquOc0M3gA
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy12MpIv3Lu
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLHyBeD5hq
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8X6trZTQW
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After two decades of gestation,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bP9QTIppV
I've now given birth to my first child,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxAto7OmUp
The afterbirth has been cleaned,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPw5JoVikJ
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCouqf5dyCu
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I fell in love with her the moment154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6arlNNowP
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYJC0z75Gb
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8j4lIrDPM
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QSh6D52G0
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Qe4JL0QE8
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfLzDepFhN
Hoping they will love her154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibKjSkQTCj
But knowing they may not.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8F2h39nxPv
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJ7Hs0Gks0
I will home school her, teach her all I know,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5l7BUTJp4
And ready her as best I can to face the world,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYys12K91u
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYkXSIS3cQ
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgh3Z9n0oV
In a year or so if life will allow it,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEd79KWUhrx
My heart is large and still has room,154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lOqoa91wp
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLFP7mUoQR
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: