I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANMmHtl2VW
Every waking moment and in my every dream,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3hVD3cMm8
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQA7GuSgnD7
As is still the case although the work is now done.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT74Q3sPBua
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Idealistic young lawyer,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwHRB7tGtW
In his first posting as a dean,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgI5nfSXV1i
In a for-profit business school,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7uaJ9DCoz
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5Wqu9n4GF
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Worked very long hours,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡio47CMDCyh
To change what was wrong,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4ac5u7Ex9
Achieved great success,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4p87C6tt0
Which all came to naught.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9VtDm3TdJs
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGhXUzWgiT
Stubbornly refusing to accept,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFIvwHanRx
That which could be changed through simple hard work,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdVJAYyIhB
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFAqMgrS5I
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A classic clash of missions and visions,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOv5wvkIeS
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvuGGmgvYj
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJJdaj0Aim
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVM5KAB9C6b
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I implemented meaningful changes,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcfRg6fQZQ
That brought unintended consequences,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5npeffmS8Z
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCZqt3Fjtx
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIQKOd27jI
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And I learned critical lessons,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4ILbJJ7b8
Not just about an industry I did not know,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8EmAu3fO3
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDR9Dz3Giz
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡza67XIaJq7
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0l9pEMdUh
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnjHBN4kE4
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWxSqheJzH
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lQ5pVOL2E
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuApwhh8U44
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡny9aYwC5sz
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeufFAxsrJP
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrufEV3BL3n
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5xjEy8F6c
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUqI3jNGdL
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRxPbSlFql
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ahTtMCAHk
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After two decades of gestation,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQutaJN2ZgX
I've now given birth to my first child,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1Ba2YLYxu
The afterbirth has been cleaned,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jxCm8zt2k
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtC39iTlHa
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I fell in love with her the moment169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6XiT4QThM
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Hjjbv9I9j
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9Fk47lu5k
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IlxBsbU6F
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuKOmHMv5v
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ed7PRW32A
Hoping they will love her169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawPCsHqOdO
But knowing they may not.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxCRKPT6Fz
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpR1H6t1Q1
I will home school her, teach her all I know,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbO6Ottxy3
And ready her as best I can to face the world,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFewcPmAN7
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKOEIrcrey
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj37X8EP2tF
In a year or so if life will allow it,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cAdnPaivS
My heart is large and still has room,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoCBrq6p64
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlH5Ev2W1Xe
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: