I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4V2KIW0hi
Every waking moment and in my every dream,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ESKLBmGtr
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAcSQegCxo
As is still the case although the work is now done.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7ed2MXbtN
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Idealistic young lawyer,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vqn7AK9KZ
In his first posting as a dean,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtPr80h2Nd
In a for-profit business school,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkxYUUS19K
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljpMefVOU6
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Worked very long hours,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDp6GPb7omk
To change what was wrong,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiN6F9dbTl
Achieved great success,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2zQB7BV5y
Which all came to naught.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeQKOFut5S
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJGRZs52Zh
Stubbornly refusing to accept,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yNwjUjDSt
That which could be changed through simple hard work,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVZnUQaIrG
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BkFeiiBPa
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A classic clash of missions and visions,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqs87tgj9W
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXkszKejF7
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsw7hybVrBA
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxF5gYZdGYh
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I implemented meaningful changes,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknqrvRTo5H
That brought unintended consequences,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt91wsFevnH
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0s4J2LyOoy
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCpJiBjCnB
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And I learned critical lessons,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3ys03udV7
Not just about an industry I did not know,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAhoeycTP3
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtYx6GaM9p
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gLMjyOCW0
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqMZpRTs24
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxjIWUfhuN
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvb0i1ImVM
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gJT8QrTG4
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVrk1mmiFc
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46yzcNufaF
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxiUJ0OtxN
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOzyWUso20
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0zP0lUwuW
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jiuKSAkEu
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2GHnOGabv
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmdV462OA2
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After two decades of gestation,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGLxQKTXak
I've now given birth to my first child,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhlpzasUG2
The afterbirth has been cleaned,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQ1WhBnjMZ
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0SvcGw0Xb
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I fell in love with her the moment124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjx5zKTet2x
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHXj5Ixotq
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMT4raPKk6
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvsFT2zTsb
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYesW2ji4b
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUB7SbDOBc
Hoping they will love her124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEweXHx5kiU
But knowing they may not.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78csJeeD3j
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGhR5r4q80
I will home school her, teach her all I know,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkGsRAmf0t
And ready her as best I can to face the world,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRELgXqkSb
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2n1RtCxAP5
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy66CqLyJ4z
In a year or so if life will allow it,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oVupaRFye
My heart is large and still has room,124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWRJ6wSNoy
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.124Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXccc2abqdq
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: