I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyoqTmfeNh
Every waking moment and in my every dream,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhWdxzHGjy
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJZDRuerLu
As is still the case although the work is now done.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmP9A6nHns
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Idealistic young lawyer,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRlEZE7M9i
In his first posting as a dean,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBWTROQYAg
In a for-profit business school,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIHPXDCw3r
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMD8WuncgY
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Worked very long hours,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9alpHi83O
To change what was wrong,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtF4olPzXrq
Achieved great success,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxD4LVLmmdK
Which all came to naught.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRiOwvS27K
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNX8UVgpEf8
Stubbornly refusing to accept,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuWodfpb5I
That which could be changed through simple hard work,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmQxKS4E1x
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4BcdD1GjN
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A classic clash of missions and visions,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaaEoG44YO
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2ByElbNnn
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeFpx5kOUi
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzKJC3HgnJ
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I implemented meaningful changes,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uOCJYljwF
That brought unintended consequences,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fxdUZJqLk
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMS8L6MYrY
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppLVrS8oXD
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And I learned critical lessons,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKWlpS7NWd
Not just about an industry I did not know,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9H0HQMEb3
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRMq9dxDAH
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ALTgwYC62
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHo0bcmkfF
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNwaWu1JVL
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71yGeGEmY4
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyg0pOj3k2B
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZG8Rlh8qQ
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZO4gAciqtS
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0o2lBUMx9
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bs5ZrQ4PR
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmElh42t83
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkU41l399Ev
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZRxpY4Vg7
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5JkSWSkNJ
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After two decades of gestation,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfxhIvyk9u
I've now given birth to my first child,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NMEvJvG0H
The afterbirth has been cleaned,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02dpoXnRsD
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6CJnyCefP
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I fell in love with her the moment167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWVz66E5eu
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAW2r87A86
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡui7XBC9aaE
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcELWNJfgc
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKUMiBNvK9
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jHraxwAsC
Hoping they will love her167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZsAnYCEja
But knowing they may not.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9W8Y4SQy6O
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARzUjoRVOy
I will home school her, teach her all I know,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMwnixn72O
And ready her as best I can to face the world,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQIBhmZsC6
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCOObLEX24
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgmsdTnHbq
In a year or so if life will allow it,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoM9XLoWdne
My heart is large and still has room,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBD0mBsCFa
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi23XhDAfau
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: