I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU44RQ0SWmA
Every waking moment and in my every dream,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZSdr60i4V
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrb5KI9CfO
As is still the case although the work is now done.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH332bbSy4U
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Idealistic young lawyer,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpZpoqPWU0
In his first posting as a dean,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwD6URjwjiV
In a for-profit business school,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0ZZfVc4qp
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzOcaNfLgv
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Worked very long hours,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKihMnj8am
To change what was wrong,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZSPmtC98y
Achieved great success,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mQkYAj1GO
Which all came to naught.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jmpiLGspB
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD75kwyHcPn
Stubbornly refusing to accept,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmRvG8AewJ
That which could be changed through simple hard work,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxJRAGNGdc
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVpdNDY6uv
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A classic clash of missions and visions,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYcUtBCKRI
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNouRxKOVcK
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWGPJWYa7z
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1YzRlu06n
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I implemented meaningful changes,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnHMGawlsH
That brought unintended consequences,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACfWcWmP82
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJeE2Bbe93
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjQZSq9agG
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And I learned critical lessons,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTpxWq1XoC
Not just about an industry I did not know,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSj50W1Maa0
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKG4AqOjcL
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nYigDpsqE
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYypCGJcQW
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy96uusqnxb
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxKIMCciPZ
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsG14gSR7LM
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9eFOmtY9x
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5eqscxxzpa
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmigGC3IKIi
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbaAuelRXhg
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAmgya7LBa
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8JLcF5KZo
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajaS8tsYOX
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZh30aos4NR
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After two decades of gestation,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcVyidMVGs
I've now given birth to my first child,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJsr6RWXzk
The afterbirth has been cleaned,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhjzhXZFtC
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCvFUhhqj2
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I fell in love with her the moment165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8e5z9PLSIw
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5WqcEBbWJ
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaV2PpuhPP
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NItpdduMH
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RcZm1yz5b
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoFlVVwTz1
Hoping they will love her165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvLO5fQzKF
But knowing they may not.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbyIQthoHL
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqxU95oiwm
I will home school her, teach her all I know,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSB8cF0Awae
And ready her as best I can to face the world,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVW9LpoPKa
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9fQL64v2L
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNfMmeof43
In a year or so if life will allow it,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQIeQqJNX3
My heart is large and still has room,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2A4dKV1Y9
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJ1wA6SgzB
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: