I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdsQkqeCgn
Every waking moment and in my every dream,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUI5EomzyX
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrAaWptinJ
As is still the case although the work is now done.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7xIYpPEDI
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Idealistic young lawyer,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HwnQa8XP6
In his first posting as a dean,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkrEzyIcEh
In a for-profit business school,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1GqFuJRnd
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpVpWRxSSR
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Worked very long hours,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmPs9rVVYK
To change what was wrong,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqvZDnMblW
Achieved great success,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4keu8iSWX
Which all came to naught.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVg1sYgclSd
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqA55CxmCeq
Stubbornly refusing to accept,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuY3Y4sTp8J
That which could be changed through simple hard work,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJV6oUh7iqw
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRl6x4MYGvO
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A classic clash of missions and visions,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsfICFBy8j
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPX9V5Fxhm
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTek1SJyDN
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cYMVpz3lB
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I implemented meaningful changes,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCGBLVjiUY
That brought unintended consequences,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvt942D2ap5
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcyZ62Hy8h
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaoCEbBI9R
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And I learned critical lessons,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8boZjSqg18
Not just about an industry I did not know,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡen9NyVkRCy
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vEIHhflhO
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvR6eX4qIq
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uSHnVezye
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLY7aMiWc3
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurSt0sYcTV
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡum2hMxapc9
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmENUKxcLcT
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7Z5w9D6Eq
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvWv5CkDrF
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXshxKZv7w
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5iwwbsvMT
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6I3Isz6R3X
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3kheH1Bs1
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MasaUbAEk
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After two decades of gestation,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzDgYD8Bhz
I've now given birth to my first child,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVjiYeNwHy
The afterbirth has been cleaned,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MOVec0OmH
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0Oru7jesy
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I fell in love with her the moment146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHcyLfZw6b
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBmX0mzhgm
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpOqFt9dcS
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYTPMtZUaO
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5kYAlubN4
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm57K8kT2LN
Hoping they will love her146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8m65qoX60n
But knowing they may not.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQtR8xVPs4
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplSMCJqfxZ
I will home school her, teach her all I know,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuk8810Fn3b
And ready her as best I can to face the world,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMpGRbWxR6
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvmgYQ01ah
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRwnatRZdz
In a year or so if life will allow it,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2lKc94Xe1
My heart is large and still has room,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5vticE24T
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwBXAX1Obn
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: