I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0soiAg68p
Every waking moment and in my every dream,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8yJEZbX9O
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2p3AeAkuKt
As is still the case although the work is now done.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2u94jfPozN
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Idealistic young lawyer,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4r8gHe4TH
In his first posting as a dean,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxpfjSZ9XH
In a for-profit business school,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXdKSjdPIT
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFeF8m2eHg
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Worked very long hours,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPJk0VHn5V
To change what was wrong,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16mzLQ8SFN
Achieved great success,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNUE6JCPWe
Which all came to naught.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ71E8TXxL5
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeW6pB8ukEa
Stubbornly refusing to accept,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtLQJIA1pF
That which could be changed through simple hard work,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zpLNMGeKx
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIHfTKdFCr
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A classic clash of missions and visions,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuxmGe4lnH
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxmH4z8ZeG
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOmbudyNMC
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfAZcInbQs
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I implemented meaningful changes,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWRUUGHNl4
That brought unintended consequences,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡosHBwddHK6
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FJMh1jE7G
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGMdqDr9Tg
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And I learned critical lessons,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrG5AHOUzKL
Not just about an industry I did not know,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QRptodawf
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15XO2LohX5
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNrtVLFmOj
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8uDKyDVGi
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AFvgg2QbA
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJPqnQGu5N
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLmtsFgYSa
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhy6DhPWo8x
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUueP1YBUsQ
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XHDHoyqrf
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlAAmliDGr
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6jLRlWtMa
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhMHA1QwO9
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2H32pbId9
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhGgr6QjpZ
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After two decades of gestation,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw02tRXRTBW
I've now given birth to my first child,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Xhc4K15fV
The afterbirth has been cleaned,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZepn8owLCw
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjJMqYxmZw
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I fell in love with her the moment139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnq0Ncl0Ukk
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoc0s6ldrY
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtWex35ZYf
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UUkciemyv
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZMWW1iozH
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPMotMnZgS
Hoping they will love her139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPwM6e3Mv2
But knowing they may not.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9HovPrOOZ
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfdqwNAo9g
I will home school her, teach her all I know,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cLP1h1f8Y
And ready her as best I can to face the world,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihSgWjv1Ee
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl46E5Y0XSM
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQwn96rnKM
In a year or so if life will allow it,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQlDrW9BTT
My heart is large and still has room,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9kmLZ3z0M
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BcDgaM8ED
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: