I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUpFqWm9a2
Every waking moment and in my every dream,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBj2iK71Yo
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRDlrqbmhA
As is still the case although the work is now done.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KciV2DCNY
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Idealistic young lawyer,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rUyjcyb7O
In his first posting as a dean,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqw4sQQxC3
In a for-profit business school,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOSlPsd8z1
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7PrF76T19
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Worked very long hours,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6zTTiQad7
To change what was wrong,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrv6Hqif8MA
Achieved great success,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DLnuZPrWs
Which all came to naught.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2SCVlG4jV
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvDDqV85zC
Stubbornly refusing to accept,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4ONR9hsX2
That which could be changed through simple hard work,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuoQB3H02X
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4p9mKQijGv
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A classic clash of missions and visions,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYC4VBl3d5
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYo70sZdPkc
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9B0LWZeFV
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIx8MCbOkm
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I implemented meaningful changes,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxsLGmAGz1
That brought unintended consequences,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4g2ZEZtIoz
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqut4WiSnd
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53B3aDLJwV
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And I learned critical lessons,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitFc1N03xL
Not just about an industry I did not know,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrqDEZQLUU
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwjr06DEiE
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHd49z1Hyd
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVsSJfpOlz
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSYsZCG2wK
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwWH8OJuxV
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrbdKx4wJb
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZhvC3J0oI
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAAVwcWQsW
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsMwN6oy5j
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9DauoGQls
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsH5C1GejQp
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWszLoxOzc
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRDogcmWXb
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucUk5xYC1M
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After two decades of gestation,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKy16Wvm3Dv
I've now given birth to my first child,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡap9yy0CNi5
The afterbirth has been cleaned,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRApuz4Ia6
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTjv4tK34M
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I fell in love with her the moment58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfyz9jtDsZ
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ21Hv0rr3s
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVXB2elGc5
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWTJEWVoVC
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1hOaDVXdn
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHgxMkq0KF
Hoping they will love her58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1N9czCTjvM
But knowing they may not.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSW5B9LJH1
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeEcTP5H1u
I will home school her, teach her all I know,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTfYatYKkP
And ready her as best I can to face the world,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgA2uYlDxnA
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVQzp1COwP
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaxUqrfjwa
In a year or so if life will allow it,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJHSAISXcL
My heart is large and still has room,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rtlCXlmzz
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeCU4ADnhI
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: