I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05s70N8dbT
Every waking moment and in my every dream,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMoslRdfBN
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhs6XNuU2YA
As is still the case although the work is now done.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9FWIZa854
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Idealistic young lawyer,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMxsPQqh2a
In his first posting as a dean,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4SVQYf1bZ
In a for-profit business school,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxf1ymgtG9B
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNlIwbSfQx
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Worked very long hours,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TZFhsJoUP
To change what was wrong,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyvfPrKmN4
Achieved great success,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMluHjKbRG
Which all came to naught.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4WVrkWFwy
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcL3TXzWpsS
Stubbornly refusing to accept,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXYIERif7q
That which could be changed through simple hard work,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfIY0xXuhu
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqsX3AtdFC
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A classic clash of missions and visions,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAA0BK4eiIR
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡko00m0UBqv
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCd78pVZIR
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyZnFjZvbD
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I implemented meaningful changes,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrzHkvhD5Q
That brought unintended consequences,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcLky6usOH
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQYIbJ8jum
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNclGSOrxX
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And I learned critical lessons,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKFSkeQUrr
Not just about an industry I did not know,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OYm6McAMz
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wpyJ5xNXy
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKh0HTFQeIV
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNS2NyXvmS
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRi7cCnO9u
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JmyoqzkFn
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmo6iO4wcd
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN0kRpzKJkM
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24frkt7DOa
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhGZ5X2v5v
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCa4IGBIxy
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXr363Jku9
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rEbmuaEia
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOSvgg1fmc
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13z75RgWNb
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After two decades of gestation,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxboUGyAGG
I've now given birth to my first child,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAff83rLaWM
The afterbirth has been cleaned,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZS5uLjjAgP
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsiLfHDjxq
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I fell in love with her the moment125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCql78JDhWo
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgnoHuJvai
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XzD2v6UPQ
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQoZ3JESv9
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IbGJkC5cZ
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvfNc94daV
Hoping they will love her125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmykn4p8N7Q
But knowing they may not.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakKVkBM1PC
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXhyl1aG6U
I will home school her, teach her all I know,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYNXynfDNA
And ready her as best I can to face the world,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8TnhGYyB2
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kbCfjmGIy
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOO2k8rP0oL
In a year or so if life will allow it,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMH519tFqF
My heart is large and still has room,125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGM97uzoy1
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.125Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdMtx9rixr
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: