I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9ID6jzubE
Every waking moment and in my every dream,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnKrTYaV3C
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3snJxWI63
As is still the case although the work is now done.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1cwG8zFBg
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Idealistic young lawyer,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLywqZxNUlr
In his first posting as a dean,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3TD6vxlhl
In a for-profit business school,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuGvM1yGRX
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL70JQlcMZj
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Worked very long hours,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwxRQ8PeM5
To change what was wrong,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPK79O6l4w
Achieved great success,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGEQ9hJDsD
Which all came to naught.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8n0Bqi249g
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAq43tIg4o
Stubbornly refusing to accept,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeEwxv4a3M
That which could be changed through simple hard work,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvMkqeDjjA
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnAXm4z4Y9
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A classic clash of missions and visions,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0PSEwO4Am
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIQLZupUOt
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Wl3YBpQrv
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwya2NZqTE
56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8U6CDqUmdX
I implemented meaningful changes,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImsrmKXBq6
That brought unintended consequences,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡef138eenDj
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3X81C8dX9
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNWTACcpiv
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And I learned critical lessons,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXyBzkhJrd
Not just about an industry I did not know,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr63PgxCIHI
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvLTN2kLYm
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWob1oMrab
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4MpqfuyIu
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JzevUZhM2
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6E2X1eFkv
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcg274qBRDG
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULOiKi8QQg
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRGwaa394D
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSr7w74UfN5
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AER6adJjo
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Q2vz0A7H1
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwErMJJEH3d
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAx4njufeK
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmDpqyqzFb
56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tx3UlvK9M
After two decades of gestation,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSaUnyQZLS
I've now given birth to my first child,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfaYxtsezK
The afterbirth has been cleaned,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMgA6fRosX
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPcF0Gw6EF
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I fell in love with her the moment56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYJju8Wuzi
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6AqM1UbUZ
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPqgbp4kIF
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdPgrrWd7Z
56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQI5Mw1qsSw
Now I'm searching for a literary agent56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmg5f1fJTj
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonOuq5a2ky
Hoping they will love her56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8DcDsT4s1
But knowing they may not.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxVmD3Xk7s
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVO99JBuot
I will home school her, teach her all I know,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlTdIE9kbm
And ready her as best I can to face the world,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDK9Ll5hrg
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6VOxmvfgm
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCowZbYBGL3
In a year or so if life will allow it,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WsP9Jm5cA
My heart is large and still has room,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH11WnEqnm
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlWfoRhm8C
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: