I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVchs7uhn4
Every waking moment and in my every dream,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACRAoQKR0f
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLDsqIVyhi
As is still the case although the work is now done.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEa7RYPlX4T
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Idealistic young lawyer,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bF5OgdFNp
In his first posting as a dean,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡks6mPqy9dd
In a for-profit business school,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvouP1u0Nb
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztmJkRlmpT
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Worked very long hours,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS55d9ZsmB4
To change what was wrong,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19ouZuYKfV
Achieved great success,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyDd0WMYaK
Which all came to naught.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsv6FFlHqq
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡliA8oZ7Cgf
Stubbornly refusing to accept,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAHBlM6Ybz
That which could be changed through simple hard work,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdixlxuQxcS
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkFBHVk53j
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A classic clash of missions and visions,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFG7GazK69B
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IvTlRnpql
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseCyJEM4mx
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgGY26yV2w
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I implemented meaningful changes,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUS1PPsQxCt
That brought unintended consequences,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1J9pnSciYU
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4B8QVMSk9
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDSxzyut4f
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And I learned critical lessons,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELFnBxM1dv
Not just about an industry I did not know,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVfYFoHNjS
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKuai0mMBn
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJYqPGmSFe
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LbVEnPekU
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1GdHeKt0M
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡai4DSOKYxg
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tbqV0PRzV
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpNoNlVSD5
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnysLiOwNM
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCZINmWpxl
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPEyBl0UA1
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9oU20vnxAo
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPbJSpnLNJ
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBXJzd11OK
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTnkCtjnYe
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After two decades of gestation,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6l3osxqjj
I've now given birth to my first child,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoob1z0eXmo
The afterbirth has been cleaned,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrigtrQlBSG
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACXkyJvup3
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I fell in love with her the moment125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3HQ7TZ9Re
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7lROvhDP7
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yXxuO31ef
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZBM3T8gDG
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxFnyBn8PM
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2m5XKYF8S
Hoping they will love her125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPHCDUY4Gj
But knowing they may not.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYs89ockZbM
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZlrEuPsWZ
I will home school her, teach her all I know,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lUBK7ExEp
And ready her as best I can to face the world,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkl0avjB7wJ
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHCcCcSsar
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bM8JCtfg1
In a year or so if life will allow it,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Mv9MADwAg
My heart is large and still has room,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLga1UblME4
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uujrenTkI
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: