I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBQq8ewSIV
Every waking moment and in my every dream,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVcy9e0q3f
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyXeK1dYKW
As is still the case although the work is now done.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1avg51CXJ
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Idealistic young lawyer,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WWXJH6U39
In his first posting as a dean,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32mdvBNsEz
In a for-profit business school,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYlYTEdk6G
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQU6jJ6w4za
114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Au3Q4hypF
Worked very long hours,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5Mbj113QA
To change what was wrong,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeu1VagXgIy
Achieved great success,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0PlGBIayj
Which all came to naught.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMfILt6EOiX
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wWt2FxZSB
Stubbornly refusing to accept,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuQOsk16Na
That which could be changed through simple hard work,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvGKazjd2T
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbDF05rRSX
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A classic clash of missions and visions,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBxtwlk9nZ
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqogDECJlG
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvdHAB7RRH
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZeY0XUlmb
114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDhzMcEDPB
I implemented meaningful changes,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRggVqdD6Rx
That brought unintended consequences,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnmm4JYgN4
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKGm8kLqMF
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQZz8g5Olx
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And I learned critical lessons,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gxZRkRZC8
Not just about an industry I did not know,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTrXGzKsvX
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qCyyupTrZ
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhnxj6Ji4e
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOV7SkOFhw
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlV3KHPw3pN
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3dhR4OTtX
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dDCWWCIAN
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4opCRTrqZ
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLCXSxDiu6H
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEvqNmKeTO
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqL6AmnCZ5
114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQeCH7y6gYn
Scars long ago faded opened up anew,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8MocIkIxHo
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMxWWFhKjg
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VjUID35ZM
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlT41Mf2KM
114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYC7DENE1Ok
After two decades of gestation,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhw6xlrFcU1
I've now given birth to my first child,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fpRjabOkN
The afterbirth has been cleaned,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tFTM38zk9
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWJqpqMSTj
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I fell in love with her the moment114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ350F0fzNdB
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSOVYuruIf
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Gz7AUVQHS
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCq3N0KfgwX
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9AWWJn03I
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNsPgifr48
Hoping they will love her114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXSAhrXcbo
But knowing they may not.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJHlPr0Jyp
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJV6UAfeaK
I will home school her, teach her all I know,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLVbY14Dou
And ready her as best I can to face the world,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PhDsMKqiF
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TQD9gTN1X
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCe4ltBzvH6
In a year or so if life will allow it,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8OAlFz1Tv
My heart is large and still has room,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOvRbTErka
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcdsKymTdiI
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: