I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYOe4AWNG9
Every waking moment and in my every dream,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAazpsp2As2
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVnec03CBv
As is still the case although the work is now done.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJFpmtBTCb
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Idealistic young lawyer,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4WxrEHP16
In his first posting as a dean,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OHNSSHseR
In a for-profit business school,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqV9KeWpdR
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jTt8CZFbr
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Worked very long hours,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjVQJWOBhW
To change what was wrong,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfdboPfWVU
Achieved great success,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwo0rl8xFB2
Which all came to naught.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWJF5Fnwxs
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDMZkhQ9Mz
Stubbornly refusing to accept,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKZoab3nMV
That which could be changed through simple hard work,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiIBGMRae9
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpx9v1FZy4B
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A classic clash of missions and visions,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQkctCAR86
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ38etW7ZD8
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83j15EFb5U
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcw644WF9I
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I implemented meaningful changes,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7M46dJd3uZ
That brought unintended consequences,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4drNvHBx2y
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdxVL5oRD1
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAQ0Kbuzna
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And I learned critical lessons,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hVygyrDGp
Not just about an industry I did not know,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLO1c6X4pp
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWoKT7nLJI
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ropNdVbOB
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lEPPzbDTz
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz20n7dXfv6
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAzBY3R5LH
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhzKZoioSt
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7o1AJ4d3bC
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEhgA2rK2C
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixG2gmt9b5
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8FnVPA9I6
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhRdhiIHcY
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPmvYewNdP
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1HaX7cnOT
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZyhZPNV0I
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After two decades of gestation,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSksDUbPPVZ
I've now given birth to my first child,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4NkGFTVZY
The afterbirth has been cleaned,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfvBSSoRBU
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLG0ZlsiLDZ
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I fell in love with her the moment125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHh6Fc3wdw
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBE85oh2yC
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDc5bPXrJT
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkMYGxy3AN
125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUktCCYBJ6
Now I'm searching for a literary agent125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiQqSsNtNl
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhI1FCwf6g
Hoping they will love her125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6USofUHclA
But knowing they may not.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoPldbXFlI
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLr5FI2Vwew
I will home school her, teach her all I know,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJIJTub1CX
And ready her as best I can to face the world,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ay4QOoVc3
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9G1UMYKXK
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajG5D2GHTv
In a year or so if life will allow it,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5e625gbepq
My heart is large and still has room,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4aIX7aQrK
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUSobSf1Zb
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: