I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFnIpQftDw
Every waking moment and in my every dream,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UGxZZLAUC
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQsDq6geW7
As is still the case although the work is now done.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7EtBcis9i
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Idealistic young lawyer,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZgovp9mQo
In his first posting as a dean,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGhr2FiF163
In a for-profit business school,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrQvWF2iTZ
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQZ0iLOMpd
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Worked very long hours,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTG3yLc9d7
To change what was wrong,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8mUrVTpva
Achieved great success,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbSsS9HKV9
Which all came to naught.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNSgbSKabC
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRuIvLk0kC
Stubbornly refusing to accept,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgmJlkri03
That which could be changed through simple hard work,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51Hh8yv1XE
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCr7AqTRlbQ
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A classic clash of missions and visions,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfhgWTaNeJ
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrENCbhD9nE
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NoTAt5QJb
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfH9i6AdVkp
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I implemented meaningful changes,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4HWseOzf1
That brought unintended consequences,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRmIP1O4L5
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYfbApNz9o
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUtpSRXJRZ
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And I learned critical lessons,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqo8q69zwr
Not just about an industry I did not know,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wNbVwQWMI
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnzfHY6GWB
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7F1PrWreP
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiBdSYYdE7
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqdfNdqth4
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSvjvmGXun
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtdLoLwvgH
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPaV9d9zi4
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1e4sxm8U34
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKEULP9KR7
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKiSkxcYeA
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tjFw8m1pR
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9im7meLXG
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIrFuojh5A
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XjDNGyWpS
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After two decades of gestation,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLPFhWrYhQ
I've now given birth to my first child,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOKFpGfGJc
The afterbirth has been cleaned,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYaA2UjL1V
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROqsC3nITg
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I fell in love with her the moment21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzE5lXXRTga
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmX85YtUsZp
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZI2jxzMtlg
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdbZbB4ytb
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0sjqMaSJL
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36h09PuTyK
Hoping they will love her21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmH0rJGNt5
But knowing they may not.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6MjmOCZ5c
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QgET7yzIw
I will home school her, teach her all I know,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXL5hygf1g
And ready her as best I can to face the world,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI58Yp5Jfj6
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXuf5aHIlI
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3R33nGk4xa
In a year or so if life will allow it,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8TjYVEBB0
My heart is large and still has room,21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Yj8mhuumk
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnuXT5A0Pd
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: