I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2r103CVbZ
Every waking moment and in my every dream,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvAASaMJJS
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQugM3DfWX
As is still the case although the work is now done.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqxH7MYzDt
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Idealistic young lawyer,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkKCd1DZuG
In his first posting as a dean,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Denho9QoS
In a for-profit business school,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrveLVKPhq8
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqRnn5LZjD
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Worked very long hours,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOELP4pAVSA
To change what was wrong,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVo1XxbeStK
Achieved great success,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbN9CYREdt
Which all came to naught.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygfAABIUEi
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenvQMKmmwo
Stubbornly refusing to accept,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaYB26ibII
That which could be changed through simple hard work,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9hPqq8lmD
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDiiGNK9JZU
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A classic clash of missions and visions,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfax8oECMFP
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajBfaWmJjF
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1AI0hRK2g
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49FhcriuRQ
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I implemented meaningful changes,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcwgCHosyh
That brought unintended consequences,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsB4GVgjY6x
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73BN8e5uoJ
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JrZEjvbwe
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And I learned critical lessons,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKETZ5BCCK
Not just about an industry I did not know,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvPnkQPFoy
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAGZ8F869s
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeibZSjQcBc
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMYtfgDOPC
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCR67vLIGG1
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQ1rqSpLuh
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslu5H9FOi1
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30W4KopHI6
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnzxYKD6HR
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRikfAFscv
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qRlhIf3Pb
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIryhnhc1hz
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡor4NgNUG6B
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8CLz8zTg5
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUgmz8hQVb
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After two decades of gestation,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fFP1mqC81
I've now given birth to my first child,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEn9Kimz66Q
The afterbirth has been cleaned,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzDon5lXwa
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNxziBfJOI
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I fell in love with her the moment134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNRpVLVfqV
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhnRwD299V
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6Uxb08TJU
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHPOzTQ8qB
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPaJwWDLSb
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RQBWM7Q0Y
Hoping they will love her134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXRD0umdWp
But knowing they may not.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQt3fGZ2vXG
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPB6WxocdxQ
I will home school her, teach her all I know,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawJY5QPFc0
And ready her as best I can to face the world,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVg7NMsPIv
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD23EI3YbfQ
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKDbD2DNm8
In a year or so if life will allow it,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFTHTHVYfc
My heart is large and still has room,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRzTvcuN8V
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDrsfiSaQt
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: