I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2UD4BLB5S
Every waking moment and in my every dream,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYoDmm6FFu
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTA8VOX2rJ
As is still the case although the work is now done.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcmHL2KlKf
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Idealistic young lawyer,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0RqUUhjJT
In his first posting as a dean,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUh8B6S7HA
In a for-profit business school,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BWvGJLRdL
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TsLNCo4ZG
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Worked very long hours,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfNF9JdCbO
To change what was wrong,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hctww1wgE
Achieved great success,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQF3bGA7hr
Which all came to naught.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOC1FHKPhPt
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAg6IgbQIof
Stubbornly refusing to accept,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtycXSkNPt
That which could be changed through simple hard work,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnh6EKKFmCs
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJVKk2V9ur
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A classic clash of missions and visions,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDD1mbbZTG
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZknDhfpwZ
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwl6Y6Vr2OU
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gMwDLuihK
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I implemented meaningful changes,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmX1SEmDkhL
That brought unintended consequences,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SnTayLOHe
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5D1z6KZ50B
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlroFBr53P
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And I learned critical lessons,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFTiOki3tM
Not just about an industry I did not know,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSqgjkObfc
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbihCt1JLKz
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0bJHgSEks
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWy84trkX5x
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBHPue8mbK
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdf3kFGx22A
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXTioNa1zK
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfTcZyib9A
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcLb5xGB0w
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8T1CnncuM7
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa55ikWKb3C
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ707ZjorbZF
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEX1H1icjhM
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzueefOOhY
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Rzw6DTW6L
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After two decades of gestation,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGZKukjAgd
I've now given birth to my first child,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQoGHjsCev
The afterbirth has been cleaned,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuysNgcgTa
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMqVpPyIyk
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I fell in love with her the moment15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Jw9aLQYVj
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKKF22S5AE
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGmTl2s4AY
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEjbZ7Hsae
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUNKqv58JU
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkQ0cjdUB4
Hoping they will love her15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvSAlChddb
But knowing they may not.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TDS9w64yn
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2RwVDYnBW
I will home school her, teach her all I know,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fj4Prj5P3
And ready her as best I can to face the world,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttdAVcJsGh
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ25adidubG
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hZQi6dvus
In a year or so if life will allow it,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSKzQqYkmB
My heart is large and still has room,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhGLvLmPpv
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEylAxaE7aX
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: