I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRyIWDDETB
Every waking moment and in my every dream,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnNiPEeVGO
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKek5WRNJQ
As is still the case although the work is now done.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4omcgv1dI
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Idealistic young lawyer,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUvFrtLByY
In his first posting as a dean,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9F7skRdTc
In a for-profit business school,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXakfPOWms
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXbGwaYSbN
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Worked very long hours,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ567qeVP6ol
To change what was wrong,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQemlvC3lu
Achieved great success,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCzJaGsfij
Which all came to naught.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxj9c5wzD66
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ590eMM0Id
Stubbornly refusing to accept,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjDuRezsO9
That which could be changed through simple hard work,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOAMsYdMPH
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYku3Z1W1o
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A classic clash of missions and visions,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPICOtsGGB
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOk9IZunDcx
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3X1qVg2Pt
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVq4lNtQIE1
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I implemented meaningful changes,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LMzTJw8Eq
That brought unintended consequences,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡND7hALYds0
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSt1gW9MW6U
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMBka1G9cb
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And I learned critical lessons,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ONeLV3eHR
Not just about an industry I did not know,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoxEjdaa3B
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8PQXwTb1j
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczcgIBPVVS
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1CbQ03Ajt
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJexiIOkRh
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9MqveLVcy
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPm5pc5PTM7
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1aIFN6czO
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitZI2Bdu0p
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xNXCme4ic
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiNS2mQUN8
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfTSHNSYlB
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8ugaK0yDC
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bCvFLxQFZ
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgeTBjrfV8
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After two decades of gestation,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0kTbf1WwA
I've now given birth to my first child,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEx8vx3djuL
The afterbirth has been cleaned,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOafFdZ0JR
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqriqSJKJKs
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I fell in love with her the moment133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SPhfJTc12
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHiWthxRin
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLv4LCTSxx
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUs6aBNTLo
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTB3w1O7B9P
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCJQBr9n0E
Hoping they will love her133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVXYN0Izhw
But knowing they may not.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsxsZxyZ9A
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdAVC3vJPI
I will home school her, teach her all I know,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1GCAPL7V1
And ready her as best I can to face the world,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZp8BSgKSyi
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNhr3MrXXw
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyYQRsbVi2
In a year or so if life will allow it,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvpMncKOKS
My heart is large and still has room,133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Jtvq167A9
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuVcIxWCUT
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: