I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFpOWzrnGW
Every waking moment and in my every dream,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUOP7wkCS0
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOg8elnwcAn
As is still the case although the work is now done.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3KXNpehos
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Idealistic young lawyer,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbC5GBxdAe
In his first posting as a dean,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcSfqYNcEn
In a for-profit business school,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajVfKnFKIN
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm7GqWXANm
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Worked very long hours,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOa8gp0FY5a
To change what was wrong,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfFS9SS8i6
Achieved great success,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvh96wIJsHk
Which all came to naught.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xWOZhSo4X
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMRPxV2csc
Stubbornly refusing to accept,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdbfelfp34
That which could be changed through simple hard work,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoW0Ge6ByHL
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErposuvyYE
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A classic clash of missions and visions,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWk92ewc1m4
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFC9BL40nC
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvCdBXPkOJ
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9zIR08Nv9
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I implemented meaningful changes,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrc7wtwQMl
That brought unintended consequences,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOd7Jgde4S
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gloBNsUk7
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkTg2eXCXC
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And I learned critical lessons,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYYh3YBMZd
Not just about an industry I did not know,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWokZlLwiu
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuyzvCOnFO
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8OBgaWtIW
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfIGYV1vXR
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYquzqYIrHI
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJ1tq8cvQ8
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfs4myZP4wG
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMqWnXgf4d
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ41kNb6Qx9
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsm7GGKeoc
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hfvNxRNzj
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFoN9Ni3Xl
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahd4TSxVI8
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTX1Vg0YRC
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFb6zBUsNqJ
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After two decades of gestation,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEdgqlOLMt
I've now given birth to my first child,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQz4AYbHaQ7
The afterbirth has been cleaned,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡya4UsSVG47
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXFbjXvVpO
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I fell in love with her the moment47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75lyqQS0cz
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAm1nMZRRD
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojVRWOM23d
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qJxwJS4g2
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncSFnxKN4x
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfk8czqiR60
Hoping they will love her47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwX1DSIIyG
But knowing they may not.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhbar8vVej
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbaYHPlv49
I will home school her, teach her all I know,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGN8EcLcUI
And ready her as best I can to face the world,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpPZM5QV6m
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8o0uqfRXPJ
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MdeAdKxeO
In a year or so if life will allow it,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQ73Qro8N5
My heart is large and still has room,47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgyeHtkSfB
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.47Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUWP3c1GxC
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: