I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXMeaPGsZf
Every waking moment and in my every dream,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJ4Jr5poDr
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDz1b5PCS2
As is still the case although the work is now done.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzpN9oxA8P
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Idealistic young lawyer,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTIscmOMii
In his first posting as a dean,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNf1s8KeyVd
In a for-profit business school,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJdXPDUDbU
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgYPsGgXBs
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Worked very long hours,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFAF1AQORJ
To change what was wrong,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡry3P1dx1Q7
Achieved great success,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Nzovg6YOe
Which all came to naught.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6LvtM5IWy
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53w7dRjWlc
Stubbornly refusing to accept,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1pm96Wx76
That which could be changed through simple hard work,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ775ZZcWnEJ
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UFVgIPrKj
106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KyCjsG67S
A classic clash of missions and visions,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZuC8Pt8wm
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QtJ3tGV7P
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9jIgdMT7A
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Q2Hg9KT6L
106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3lg60AFKl
I implemented meaningful changes,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqravQTRxR1
That brought unintended consequences,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DLEnSfpzA
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWY727WU4V
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4e7kZrnhI
106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0h3FPWEsnL
And I learned critical lessons,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG7ZdOljv1N
Not just about an industry I did not know,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTrLAdvjfk
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQArFiIhws
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRZu7zteL0
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBa8ou0f3C
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoC1oPRwk1
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9Puhz1IYN
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7dbfh0WfX
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkOHLLLzMd
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYfkr3JIfx
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtkP2nZ1mh
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0szlXy1UF8
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7IHGiexBD
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4o3KLsYhE
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOaEfvAgsex
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Wvy9VPWvd
106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnaEM9twfR
After two decades of gestation,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6YNBMUSTH
I've now given birth to my first child,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRvzbjnTQs
The afterbirth has been cleaned,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzmjV3Yrsi
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Y6JKNLQX8
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I fell in love with her the moment106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Badcro11f
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4zh8uwF6f
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9q1l9QbOC
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqRMqZfeew
106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxxQTJn8Ba
Now I'm searching for a literary agent106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbigDlZ8mp
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41D3hVzFTb
Hoping they will love her106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfles9kyqt2
But knowing they may not.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcec0qdOqsL
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDoQI7On6g
I will home school her, teach her all I know,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOC4TKjlVmW
And ready her as best I can to face the world,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonVKLhB6Qo
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnH7KIBBEW
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxbnQzyXjc
In a year or so if life will allow it,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3UmPH7IRx
My heart is large and still has room,106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnngKzVH6JL
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.106Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKSfYj4cGe
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: