I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZQBI2goCN
Every waking moment and in my every dream,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0E9LohAESB
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARsUG8h7NV
As is still the case although the work is now done.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPBjdpiSKn
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Idealistic young lawyer,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfolVDa0hpk
In his first posting as a dean,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71sksr2G9Z
In a for-profit business school,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRyfHLHULW
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoa6n13lP3j
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Worked very long hours,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOa58Wg2WCU
To change what was wrong,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OsnxdaPiK
Achieved great success,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NctHsuTg9
Which all came to naught.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtchKDC2hzz
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJygJhJmHDm
Stubbornly refusing to accept,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbFfgIileV
That which could be changed through simple hard work,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrsiNk61iA
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKE4efFfysY
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A classic clash of missions and visions,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLgk31QsLE
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNL0t6DRnDe
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaV70rIqG9w
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvgfnWVIZA
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I implemented meaningful changes,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQse4aSclw
That brought unintended consequences,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9cpoaJK8k
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkJo9gUgYu
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyt20IPw2i
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And I learned critical lessons,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMd9N4sSas
Not just about an industry I did not know,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4feF9UNyug
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlK5NZjlb0u
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4boGcZu9I
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiVhY6lFW8
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3gZ6FMAJ3
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6RiEAIMJ9
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkK0NEHbgrH
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpOAvaTaVf
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQ8Z1edlZY
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ298zSzQVSB
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HU1QFlIpc
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqh0Uxnvtl
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjMDabGfQD
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiXJaR30nZ
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIX7oCNRGaB
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After two decades of gestation,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGKMuzAeKc
I've now given birth to my first child,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6vgHfR9HA
The afterbirth has been cleaned,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMz8rNMnXRK
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgItY0ijJu
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I fell in love with her the moment391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF40R2UPfJG
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmv0lkkXctK
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEc69Nduz3l
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIwKSMAjVZ
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0Kzls1tZb
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0Ux2MG7rr
Hoping they will love her391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81mKXsvVkE
But knowing they may not.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUABx7JDDZw
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqC8o7fvs8u
I will home school her, teach her all I know,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEmkkAs9E2
And ready her as best I can to face the world,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyE6Co3x3hI
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVmCPmG0GM
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKnKSkG3Ie
In a year or so if life will allow it,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIXoYB1fZ2
My heart is large and still has room,391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENlqpoJf7G
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.391Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOaPswzKLe
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: