I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1uHqrggAR
Every waking moment and in my every dream,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWHrjgLCMm
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhva8fiNYs1
As is still the case although the work is now done.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXEWqe2W1i
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Idealistic young lawyer,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYxOQ6yeF4
In his first posting as a dean,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwrPeD1mgG
In a for-profit business school,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoQg71kPeK
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxu8Vc6JheZ
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Worked very long hours,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xeuSZv7bS
To change what was wrong,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAxXb7tlWr
Achieved great success,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIc2hoYHxh
Which all came to naught.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XgmPSjNBY
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OSUhQQXFR
Stubbornly refusing to accept,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlK0IovKgmZ
That which could be changed through simple hard work,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPM1CI6T1lX
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxew8OsFDbR
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A classic clash of missions and visions,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4m9OGYGUn
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4De4d4BRNU
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLIC0hyCCv
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQE9szJ7Sp
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I implemented meaningful changes,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0RVpngiMG
That brought unintended consequences,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpJuy9o5Nu
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfw3yRek48v
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmvsPt3C4f
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And I learned critical lessons,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zjCBsRqka
Not just about an industry I did not know,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOalpyOfJn
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFikWNne7re
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjc5IJ8iRR7
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kisOMjkFh
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7W50ylQCR
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLV6gBiVLFp
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ062WjfNcar
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYGXz5n7L8
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtfu68AiHL
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHYvOPXLUu
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKI0rGKBfjp
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHr5sX5nrTu
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvxnM1OVhH
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSw5ZmCk8F
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQFcTmbHJU
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After two decades of gestation,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXE9ep3hGdV
I've now given birth to my first child,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKK19FiDGy
The afterbirth has been cleaned,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEhmaVRwpk
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFmHH2L0iG
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I fell in love with her the moment131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtoeA2Iarw
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnBy3XonhQ
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqIbTK3Juq
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UvmcgNILn
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGuJUWfw8B
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4G8avGdoLV
Hoping they will love her131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0zc9KtpID
But knowing they may not.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrk9MtbLory
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyl0gAJNtZ1
I will home school her, teach her all I know,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQHp1MuYmC
And ready her as best I can to face the world,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVw0w4JCbNs
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXY4C4dFKF
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfmyokPsBS
In a year or so if life will allow it,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vPC3QrX5N
My heart is large and still has room,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDVacwxCWo
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekNZCWVHQZ
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: