I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ExgIZsfJg
Every waking moment and in my every dream,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeOXdhCwgi
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaeyzVLoHv
As is still the case although the work is now done.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpz8LBUOn9
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Idealistic young lawyer,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QhqXYtoR6
In his first posting as a dean,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxYIxRDuZL
In a for-profit business school,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xSjLfRNWO
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4QxUMPkj3
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Worked very long hours,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFp0DcG46PJ
To change what was wrong,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZR9LmvDTo
Achieved great success,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWP2HuebVR
Which all came to naught.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6DvxOaOls
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM31HHL8t42
Stubbornly refusing to accept,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarCxaxt0cN
That which could be changed through simple hard work,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcDUPdS1iD
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlSxOUblZf
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A classic clash of missions and visions,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBxDntTNHV
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsmnnXJQew
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYGoztoKzi
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xAkTO0KeO
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I implemented meaningful changes,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm79ruAlO0H
That brought unintended consequences,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qYX5Zb6Ai
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4UchT4szB
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9urFiZ9isS
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And I learned critical lessons,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEo9GLlz4u
Not just about an industry I did not know,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtegMIFKB7n
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukgb6NOFkR
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bVQGZCm7b
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnJo2zkdqC
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRH7TMIND0S
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQawhm2UCo
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlB1m6Z2ZM0
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oyPvv6GmU
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapttlBP7Ww
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIJCpAWowY
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLeour91ugU
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDubYfEC7c
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCkNYbICDH
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sl6U1XKuc
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5EnCUI9BU
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After two decades of gestation,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtdHqKM1Ak
I've now given birth to my first child,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtimYYwdCYS
The afterbirth has been cleaned,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpoZ4mpssf
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb77Rm2lU5S
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I fell in love with her the moment166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwaDffy0Ci
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8nl0MQZ7U
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXlZGThUGJ
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3GfdY02TF
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSGiZVgINS
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmKzGXlZM9
Hoping they will love her166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dC8waPNe0
But knowing they may not.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTogt8V8FLF
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HaqZbkm8r
I will home school her, teach her all I know,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzt1e5zb49
And ready her as best I can to face the world,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgJepqDEBh
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3R4ES2YGg0
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNXFwCUb8K
In a year or so if life will allow it,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMipmmSe8w
My heart is large and still has room,166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtsI9kldXU
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.166Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAd6GRD5OQ
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: