I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SX4MY5Zdb
Every waking moment and in my every dream,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEoOlneDpq
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPO3bzx98mG
As is still the case although the work is now done.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhif83kPRHk
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Idealistic young lawyer,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpYniFoQgj
In his first posting as a dean,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdNYSXDnxS
In a for-profit business school,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hFieKOfZI
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDhu2UTnwu
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Worked very long hours,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgVhh9wcGw
To change what was wrong,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw5wHcsPoEO
Achieved great success,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCU0qy5ssHT
Which all came to naught.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybw6URS8la
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtckPnrhK4H
Stubbornly refusing to accept,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kr6DnOIex
That which could be changed through simple hard work,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0twGQJoJX
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLbPOMJrJF
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A classic clash of missions and visions,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkWf6Q1xwI
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0wn33NsXF
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bl7iSm9PC
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TZmDl9W5N
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I implemented meaningful changes,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhthH7vbpfn
That brought unintended consequences,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8AkWXQZ0H
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXct0ofokOW
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQh11gN3pDy
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And I learned critical lessons,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeyP8ehsEj
Not just about an industry I did not know,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Yji2bXFsW
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44Kq0nI4zi
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5juIpKzwZ
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeaUgtdGcL
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaV5zM0YCF
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwWYqaAyms
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3wdFmqztn
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlI7NHSRPg
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBXwEWqCga
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmE9RGShYJ
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqbDh3Qi2B
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRpButx1wu
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLv7F9F2ve
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaba6wJ42i
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61AfYID48I
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After two decades of gestation,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgx7TdLqE0
I've now given birth to my first child,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJMmZrwvr6
The afterbirth has been cleaned,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOBCzlS2Dr
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUE3qn0xdyI
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I fell in love with her the moment49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ994S1fpl3W
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjpvHTLv8a
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEvqzThjZ7
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BYyBZRDJc
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4m6ljmMHWd
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYteMHkOzjz
Hoping they will love her49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYv5x0NXQH
But knowing they may not.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5EuEDf73I
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yUWhDOIeb
I will home school her, teach her all I know,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFduPbtyODQ
And ready her as best I can to face the world,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkWFyG2Qrv
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDiAjGdfI8
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMShW63CLnK
In a year or so if life will allow it,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UOlcEdGMg
My heart is large and still has room,49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiVjlmBbiK
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.49Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSrzY0TBLW
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: