I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqBmu8kjVC
Every waking moment and in my every dream,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MUfpkPgLQ
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FjbUb65xs
As is still the case although the work is now done.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbv1Wyp60bB
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Idealistic young lawyer,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZZ7WWfkpY
In his first posting as a dean,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNf2aoNDf4
In a for-profit business school,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeeAmRR9XW
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXliclSIFUD
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Worked very long hours,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSj3Qqzypyo
To change what was wrong,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIL8Fo6n92
Achieved great success,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8cRdtYrF2
Which all came to naught.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7ZAAytbbf
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWauzIgO2cm
Stubbornly refusing to accept,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBdLPuyUi7
That which could be changed through simple hard work,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQXJb4Ohq4
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENy0fj08aw
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A classic clash of missions and visions,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY052h5t9sR
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbm4pRdoWnR
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN784hoj8Pa
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUpqM9Niol
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I implemented meaningful changes,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxDuiZpOLp
That brought unintended consequences,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcCQ4b5pjI
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk274QUqeUV
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HNdDdJTav
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And I learned critical lessons,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWw7WrEbr0
Not just about an industry I did not know,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlOvFvb5qG
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEggyVx1G1
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00gXVDBxPl
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUt5WAftAA
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsrbjHhg6n
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobUsbMNTHW
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxxJVLTNxi
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwCWS0kGnr
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxo8QXyXw4z
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuSZkLCas5
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdI0Q8WVvN
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZs5lBZgPK5
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdcgMhVyfN
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoYfKdpJxf
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmebtGMgG6
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After two decades of gestation,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4YD7nb1hf
I've now given birth to my first child,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ghN229EAB
The afterbirth has been cleaned,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEvGqWAwc6
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgEOglT6zk
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I fell in love with her the moment25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczFpQsn9QF
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMTQ5fOyJW
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAQdO32xGP
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsLZJIudhM
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFHtngt2Sy
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTkKaCVSoM
Hoping they will love her25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwedAMNkY5A
But knowing they may not.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhZyhLVNmD
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRi7F2LGxA5
I will home school her, teach her all I know,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfJ5pZvSGq
And ready her as best I can to face the world,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5H6GQfIFd
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBB7tQaJhSA
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlwa8EEZptt
In a year or so if life will allow it,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fJfZwvLWm
My heart is large and still has room,25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkI4kz5NVFH
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIy2JoM3Kg
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: