Started writing it two decades ago,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk08XkcM3Vq
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1GkLS21B3
To protect the guilty and innocent,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikevaCw7Oe
In this fiction based on actual facts.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NGSa9ZDjj
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Life got in the way of reliving it,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlBgTy6Gww
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JoLNoP2rm
Back burners full of overflowing pots,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGq7DEX5N7N
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3IWAPbn1L
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Serious writing projects completed,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6eRMa513Ym
A dozen plus books published,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡet0pauiq2U
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw41uBhT6ZL
New courses to develop and to teach.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupqGaQavqC
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPFl9IwHqt
But not not written down to pass down my truth,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicOZjYGQmA
About things I know much more than I'd like,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIrkecHBvd
And others should learn, in old age and youth.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2K2jJuXFHD
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeO7r8LLEZO
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTprXR9tuk8
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduouEvJU3y
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cl1JGJIYu
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblzWLvMbTJ
In memory still green, though browning in parts,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBWeZUPW10
Taking poetic license where I must,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEipR3DUHn
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIekK3SjhsF
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJWTJ5IadP
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGlXBYt2TJ
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwFOhpROvn
By hungry vultures out of existence.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8RYifVKEI
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Remembering a day in my career,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoooFHUpyHl
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7EpZofz7A
And had not opened doors I could not close,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOsmHuw4Pz
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpV8jNWeaGU
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2EYcBr3AD
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq23d2trOhr
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfHvA8dhzk
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUVr1Ue74r
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The painful memories I now drown in,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmSipgUWhb
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqzdPY2dih
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhF5Tn5i05B
To protect myself and those I have loved.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGBtIbkpEw
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0qtgI28UO
Describe what I've learned that others should know,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXS1jsCJn7B
Weave the personal with transparent thread,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqh4jnRMk7
The professional with thickest red yarn.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDWm0y9TnK
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JxbxDQwWG
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwirzKMCagG
And I believe it will find a market,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvsGgYTB0n
For it will reveal some essential truths.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWJuRw6Gca
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It will teach much more that all need to know,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpud4jYEvN
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡertJtYXnZm
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxq1oRlhrc
Hope I can write it before my life ends.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxK6A0dpin
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxe6eWeAwv
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuBq4wMhdK
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