I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXB8Dj1a7i
Every waking moment and in my every dream,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKjaiZuxwi
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExLcfIcYbB
As is still the case although the work is now done.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFptNk2rqC
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Idealistic young lawyer,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTlfAoBT9b
In his first posting as a dean,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLueCMsldyI
In a for-profit business school,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjGMvlhbWL
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVuVblyo9Hs
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Worked very long hours,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCsDr2Of8J
To change what was wrong,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBYqV7NVoc
Achieved great success,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVJogmUOEG
Which all came to naught.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34eADXkkSs
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNKHuclLyl
Stubbornly refusing to accept,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JreN1mzaG
That which could be changed through simple hard work,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTAFV4MesW
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tGfrj4P6k
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A classic clash of missions and visions,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELsi1iHDYF
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoN2xsS6dSl
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDhTgMcM9z
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnl6lfRSRa
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I implemented meaningful changes,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauQHf8RyA3
That brought unintended consequences,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOaLJvhBFF
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PiWMWu3NN
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdtGVI3wDG
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And I learned critical lessons,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡia9z2dCfPx
Not just about an industry I did not know,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkSNbMCEqm
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTa6cyaRSG5
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlsZ8b1ouU
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgvsqMPXTt
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7sz70tHjP
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMAEkg0b4T
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gdCRySH6M
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wE4GzsN8d
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4jtydggN3
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7qfmnPt7m
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUGrifrRbU
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxPTmgsWYH
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDwuJhvCOt
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fcXqetlKd
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrA90PbZqev
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After two decades of gestation,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJuezGgKbZ
I've now given birth to my first child,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcW1sFMOPO4
The afterbirth has been cleaned,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5b3qXJIlre
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWk3BQp5JhS
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I fell in love with her the moment90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCY0bTrzKP4
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXcXl0FILrd
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrFS2SvyRI
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXQRxRhw0V
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrTKO3CddX
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4BZeebUQF
Hoping they will love her90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMu40BN19t
But knowing they may not.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjElQPKtNW
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ867zAzzy49
I will home school her, teach her all I know,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw5cQ2s409n
And ready her as best I can to face the world,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsay2Nqg3hd
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvjjb9ZRdF
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGHavfkZ2S
In a year or so if life will allow it,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ow3mcWJ0v
My heart is large and still has room,90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlxnJeG8Y8
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGn3debxHm1
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: