I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyLrPDrkSF
Every waking moment and in my every dream,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ671h7pPfEs
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAzpUoEWs7
As is still the case although the work is now done.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCG7kyGcL4n
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Idealistic young lawyer,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTvZ9ijhS3
In his first posting as a dean,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUM82hcd4xy
In a for-profit business school,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaiiGHbxFM
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwro7HRR7Wt
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Worked very long hours,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXotWjpRSX
To change what was wrong,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2bhaI2Dy7
Achieved great success,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrT3U286bQi
Which all came to naught.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPl2SNYsAs4
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSlPl7rMSa
Stubbornly refusing to accept,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EPKc3LS4W
That which could be changed through simple hard work,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSpo3YjxNR
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtStGzJjVIu
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A classic clash of missions and visions,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4tcpqC9DF
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYjJzpoGfK
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡso0LighCWr
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsmyKxW04g
132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfFUgm5S68
I implemented meaningful changes,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLen2uudWwQ
That brought unintended consequences,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleHmwG76t4
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRVUEFNRJ4
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiq6nu4DzAW
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And I learned critical lessons,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwsH2R8ACi
Not just about an industry I did not know,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDya2CSREG
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISv7xUCMFu
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60jBVmavpP
132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5g3NLCkIXR
I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttacBOdgtg
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4A7JESbAwu
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfFC5yDN2A
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73xJhfY92X
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SeRvn6yzb
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLMRg3YG0F
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1boIIjZo19
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTWsGKRkYF
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgH6R7XeHaC
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHZBd47mvp
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1MFF8J5a2
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsbmPGQn0t
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After two decades of gestation,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLBdToBZnI
I've now given birth to my first child,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQf9eTEr4a
The afterbirth has been cleaned,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6jsX04eTf
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqG31SgK4y
132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYgHmfjyPC
I fell in love with her the moment132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXkbi3R7rh
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS40sFahszx
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjiGssq5SM
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RMPzKmqEr
132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPf4fO6kOVd
Now I'm searching for a literary agent132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqcRLMA0m0
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAJwHQpmD7
Hoping they will love her132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnl3AvUitP
But knowing they may not.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaUKoTXQf8
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwszpZIqoD
I will home school her, teach her all I know,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvcDIByGh8
And ready her as best I can to face the world,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE60JaUWGbp
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxDYYXoUTS
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLaRHrSucD
In a year or so if life will allow it,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCHMXoPcpS
My heart is large and still has room,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdHbCkOgJ5
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3inNO1DnZN
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: