I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LqTxyEgKF
Every waking moment and in my every dream,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TkEnPxxSW
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1VgShbLQz
As is still the case although the work is now done.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGziXWkkH6F
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Idealistic young lawyer,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoAaLJ9DUW
In his first posting as a dean,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBT1KE1U5V
In a for-profit business school,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzlo1i62kI
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTxL5L8mIK
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Worked very long hours,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYHsUvlkUO
To change what was wrong,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4NKERhxcy
Achieved great success,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6MjcIr8kc
Which all came to naught.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIMHAqOOeO
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddvawNmbUs
Stubbornly refusing to accept,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK67ISx5m2f
That which could be changed through simple hard work,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ACrBWBaWu
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRe5ALQAX5x
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A classic clash of missions and visions,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIImTAHIBz
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5MaKLKXgA
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRej35hgL5
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsEjYqjaHR
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I implemented meaningful changes,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrB4pJaoUA5
That brought unintended consequences,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfMYeAaVlS
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkFjwn0hRn
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0c0svfbpo
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And I learned critical lessons,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqU8ZeQltN
Not just about an industry I did not know,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRVPhEjkCj
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfmrPndSiR
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9N7rXA3BzJ
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVKcUbNX37
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0x4RzotVD
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvl9uPNrIg
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5PoKrt2Dw
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iUZKCnaVC
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu71mUx1VE2
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ROhV6LUcF
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlezDAstf8J
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhYVfORoad
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0e5Sjdpue0
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8A05HlSS6
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7zcD2mCS3
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After two decades of gestation,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQTMNJUM7k
I've now given birth to my first child,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdMctzwXbx
The afterbirth has been cleaned,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0X1XzKlTb
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqh5sF9haNX
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I fell in love with her the moment130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPAYcYAhQg
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoQGeUUYQm
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCuNd9ji38
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKD7usxfEtT
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWpUlRrGyC
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSctUOA52nL
Hoping they will love her130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvuAkMWrv8
But knowing they may not.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNXdkIAIJK
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpSivLOcwA
I will home school her, teach her all I know,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXBvjEjfO4
And ready her as best I can to face the world,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClwXTnzMCJ
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYB1zzGEew
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTH2jIHdmlM
In a year or so if life will allow it,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1ra8a8eDe
My heart is large and still has room,130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnxZEr9jxg
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.130Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIL8STLApM
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: