I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4LVVgl6lN
Every waking moment and in my every dream,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfs7ojp3Ua
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3cu53QJ5r
As is still the case although the work is now done.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8n7Wj0Why
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Idealistic young lawyer,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7nvBKOvlp
In his first posting as a dean,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvfZZZswpn
In a for-profit business school,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFb9nggUYSv
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGTOWwqw3l
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Worked very long hours,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRd3H9kiJY
To change what was wrong,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDow3h1dtA
Achieved great success,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgTI7kP6Bl
Which all came to naught.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXuq4cEwCC
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cpghSqPsA
Stubbornly refusing to accept,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0c6XRgwAdK
That which could be changed through simple hard work,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLRcch5uun
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDF7HTVBzC
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A classic clash of missions and visions,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IPrmqCPOY
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmxduOfmNL
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlBDprvoo2
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZq0rcAUNlg
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I implemented meaningful changes,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdckkoqq0sE
That brought unintended consequences,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9WtDmiogX
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5T1raIfuKG
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeARX86lgce
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And I learned critical lessons,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VX1tHINZK
Not just about an industry I did not know,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6qe2iLZEu
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0uWHZu0Qx
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFmNkeYPlt
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxhbzFQ04k
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZDTIHeOwW
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYvqzDWXp3
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq51GX99GNX
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnRH3Ga9vr
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPNPIK4mGY
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuHRdl9Jv3
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AUkEDspSc
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4apAwtw3T
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkUZPXCY7J
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7aLGZ1hS4
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1ILRoHnwz
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After two decades of gestation,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNZPZUC9EL
I've now given birth to my first child,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbodRLu7AX5
The afterbirth has been cleaned,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4KRCu0lnB
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjsLXJ0hhs
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I fell in love with her the moment153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUX31r2va7u
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5p3PWigJko
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuXSFS4Xf4
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWg6pCGgyJ
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnm7145g8ZM
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQEE1LND5V
Hoping they will love her153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyRByJZLQP
But knowing they may not.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmb0RQnFGZ
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZxhkI0Veq
I will home school her, teach her all I know,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiqppoa9tl
And ready her as best I can to face the world,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPwWtLuccGy
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrINaLQA0hU
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQoMSjp8Da
In a year or so if life will allow it,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbrpf42ydL
My heart is large and still has room,153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYpHVnDJs8
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIh0nCAhhb
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: