I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHA1AUge1f
Every waking moment and in my every dream,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvcBzTsddJ
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHWgh2370x
As is still the case although the work is now done.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFFsD05hFs
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Idealistic young lawyer,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQRdPsCuXy
In his first posting as a dean,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEutnoF3uCY
In a for-profit business school,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcNDBcUpDQ
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoGCIXRdms
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Worked very long hours,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRSZri0Lgu
To change what was wrong,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkC6NI4W86H
Achieved great success,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpSeylZMyS
Which all came to naught.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpH7FasBKjZ
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNL8iOFU2pL
Stubbornly refusing to accept,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAOqlDc6p8
That which could be changed through simple hard work,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTB7XzlTni
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaFvN88c5v
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A classic clash of missions and visions,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzoxfP7Enp
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2PuBLvm4f
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdtEtZbSKi
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVr4iHo0ks6
107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWGHNYlALK
I implemented meaningful changes,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAX8MxTNJHv
That brought unintended consequences,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFViFFeOhcf
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27JUH05fHs
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUpqTckdFu
107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS22uN00mJg
And I learned critical lessons,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79Sx7LJZiN
Not just about an industry I did not know,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGe6aFkF4h2
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlsj5D2WAy
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmprHWusciR
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxwyS2XWcT
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHN5W4jRBcb
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGpVw2P0ii
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4wXzBM1pc
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdhaU1sV59
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEk13JpyhqW
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSGQ3tIYOK
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKLsW8S1qm
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTCsPJAwcs
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzFUXXBFjm
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeAtpoi0jr
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHs6sfVQku
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After two decades of gestation,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXcocxIXEc
I've now given birth to my first child,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L4cqG023R
The afterbirth has been cleaned,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtC6Gtl42e
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6XIsfmFTH
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I fell in love with her the moment107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamoNFiOEwG
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4I6UQsbAqI
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAO1iG2W8ue
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eTj9JUPoC
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UlztfV8Ai
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZP74uxccdU
Hoping they will love her107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYczT5AFZ1
But knowing they may not.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyXcDjAWgJ
107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHb79dbZSb
If I can't send her off to finishing school,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNR4f8qqzV
I will home school her, teach her all I know,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhbxhaI3Lq3
And ready her as best I can to face the world,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5HdgQjx4L
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83jsQdLKor
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2shCPr6td
In a year or so if life will allow it,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGx38hDKRa
My heart is large and still has room,107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPgxr6ohM5
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.107Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxAb44GrRd
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: