I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBsMRRdcpH
Every waking moment and in my every dream,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzAQitlpXA
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTptQSPs0F
As is still the case although the work is now done.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0hedODb97
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Idealistic young lawyer,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRxbdgM7qz
In his first posting as a dean,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xgFkTasks
In a for-profit business school,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBqyjGO1Ip
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoB3spf7sf1
96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qFBuKSn9p
Worked very long hours,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpIFulAIaL
To change what was wrong,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRMKQTPWmf
Achieved great success,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6SDoKw3NG
Which all came to naught.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pgUa4gU0T
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQnfXBHi40
Stubbornly refusing to accept,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmiQFiL8wm
That which could be changed through simple hard work,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbsgtP7ZEH
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoms3hwR0s
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A classic clash of missions and visions,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AQxRln36W
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeZCcA0EyW
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBgg6e4Yk6
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1pnP0a6Yd
96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGy1elDR3A
I implemented meaningful changes,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZZjLMWWzq
That brought unintended consequences,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZ29qL3JIm
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpRKjRfMkB
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUde1SMTbw
96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRnpdzqZU0
And I learned critical lessons,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzA0HHvIWX
Not just about an industry I did not know,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPMxv3iJkq
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡev3fIbvyHw
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQkJr7dgix
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyjb8y0v5d
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06qnTFAllV
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL47qCxqCfl
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOx7Ax1lxAK
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiqFLXE2iX
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlymPb7mtH
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZH9y1EZ2zQ
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmV9AriYgst
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznyPUMgple
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlh1Hm8TOT
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFjLdbaItB
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQMXU73D23
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After two decades of gestation,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc97LDzTU9H
I've now given birth to my first child,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGcitmCiY2
The afterbirth has been cleaned,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBcx1oc8M9
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVr1HZdOLU
96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mBfrgc1Ik
I fell in love with her the moment96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pu7a8eFta
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwlecXtaCA
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodhauVXocv
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mqklB8nXw
96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu77IRjJH2
Now I'm searching for a literary agent96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMt7FHTrrn
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5k96sJG7g1
Hoping they will love her96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytLzUOIqAZ
But knowing they may not.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKkxYoe7Oo
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xBbjdJheY
I will home school her, teach her all I know,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdcDOpeImE
And ready her as best I can to face the world,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttnATmqwCb
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITxADgZYv0
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdC7E0A60X
In a year or so if life will allow it,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cZQX6SepF
My heart is large and still has room,96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQL2A2Hv6c
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.96Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDI14TghJv0
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: