I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGRf8cffr6
Every waking moment and in my every dream,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5quPSXJkFr
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xweopEX6X
As is still the case although the work is now done.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYN3rgOaoN
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Idealistic young lawyer,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5y7tIkE3s
In his first posting as a dean,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJlM0w78B5
In a for-profit business school,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKe5mftb5G
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffUkfxcfHT
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Worked very long hours,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOCHYGXGFP
To change what was wrong,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9IYzECY88
Achieved great success,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuAZmny1tm
Which all came to naught.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRsw1q4Awk
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhYbWTci2i
Stubbornly refusing to accept,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEwfsFTKOy
That which could be changed through simple hard work,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70JtgDNHhB
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgIEwbA2h1
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A classic clash of missions and visions,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKe60EXYSt
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUVhjoK5od
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CBnRfn2BV
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4ql5XPtuo
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I implemented meaningful changes,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCQf6TW8Om
That brought unintended consequences,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ItpxrG1ra
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhVgBydClz
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWHHIq2C3p
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And I learned critical lessons,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMklLlvRrfV
Not just about an industry I did not know,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxekdtLwZRi
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJ2q8DZofc
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufZx4Ep7Ws
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKyrVZ9d1T
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3BfET30qg
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13edveAYqu
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1SmVqb7Hx
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSA0pehyS9j
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1vOQIBcUy
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVTPiGi8nL
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2O3Ow1SLE
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmTx787CNq
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOr3qjI2IN
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT34H2felO7
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxD0Hel21w
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After two decades of gestation,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9cIvqmnxp
I've now given birth to my first child,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FNeJ6V4mo
The afterbirth has been cleaned,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmg10KX30E
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSIBXGTYjA
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I fell in love with her the moment131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjPA1Zhclj
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUbIIFXauw
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ka8hMWDS2
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiZbBUVz2p
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQ0aiCEO4y
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLvHaWvXy9
Hoping they will love her131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQInhFFuRkG
But knowing they may not.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPbMkN6EyK
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZYiPtf9zra
I will home school her, teach her all I know,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgNgE5FMqc
And ready her as best I can to face the world,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmRdOn0aDH
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQROUednkiK
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgpVFH8fYF
In a year or so if life will allow it,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2FXxiI3IV
My heart is large and still has room,131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW33TbyQQh7
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKjBtRMseW
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: