I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zNQVzYd61
Every waking moment and in my every dream,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvWPXaGVGV
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsuX2Sq0tH
As is still the case although the work is now done.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFUZ8A4ds3
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Idealistic young lawyer,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4sOOdUrjC
In his first posting as a dean,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMx97O9eakX
In a for-profit business school,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPJgOTCUNI
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezAzYI4WQi
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Worked very long hours,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6z9be1npnU
To change what was wrong,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjv9irEaI6m
Achieved great success,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8QbumuUuO
Which all came to naught.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgGcbrOUAF
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOfe7sjZy6
Stubbornly refusing to accept,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7iyVqPJZs
That which could be changed through simple hard work,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJCFymEuCB
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOivcFfqDQ3
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A classic clash of missions and visions,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyTIIEj5WT
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUNopi2F9n
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWYGKkBmGc
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoKrKYEsTB
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I implemented meaningful changes,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡto3faHrnuH
That brought unintended consequences,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOThTHXX3r
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlYud1aAlF
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIIOruAePR
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And I learned critical lessons,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkM5JkMC2i
Not just about an industry I did not know,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBqfAJRhrV
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOX3mwYo0I
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKg0hVphz5Z
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBkUFxeZN5
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9US52f6NP
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNA5BWwEIaa
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OaaC5IDbP
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1W3uea8jN
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEqQs0teym
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLh2Mv0XFup
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97EzqV4rmo
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsoGqZKqft
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmiKmcrEaT
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpqf9DOOJE
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFBIggGyC3
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After two decades of gestation,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1Z6DxhIWP
I've now given birth to my first child,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbSzDecYCW
The afterbirth has been cleaned,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5uAlbtAJx
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vcj3nGz6T
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I fell in love with her the moment57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPxYCljKda
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGceD5xppOI
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUfv22rdRl
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpwS45QRNI
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzZGqbIoWi
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSBYFwHtt4
Hoping they will love her57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlePQ4kxIy
But knowing they may not.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOu47DsusUy
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1cYW8Mf0CI
I will home school her, teach her all I know,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4qJNpb4fq
And ready her as best I can to face the world,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGrHx0k0FA
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsD7DSTFYdu
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwuLZnRAin
In a year or so if life will allow it,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1hTTNbe8s
My heart is large and still has room,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBy6Q5tbubq
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XIlL58XkR
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: