I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofUwteFLvn
Every waking moment and in my every dream,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FgYxtDTPL
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDAfWsIcxk
As is still the case although the work is now done.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQptggA1hM
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Idealistic young lawyer,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDg6IouydJs
In his first posting as a dean,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQ9NvGN88Y
In a for-profit business school,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDmLgiXpqu
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpq7U8zB6l
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Worked very long hours,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmxeLrhwD1
To change what was wrong,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwhC7zLGTp
Achieved great success,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGLpE9PqAW
Which all came to naught.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuw4rRbrTJ
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOb3fPaYbme
Stubbornly refusing to accept,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSv4nTJMB04
That which could be changed through simple hard work,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkzeIvkh7w
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QSCaRtWGm
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A classic clash of missions and visions,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuTKrz60D3
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZN0sgBavu
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rydpw1mpA
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12rL1RfSsH
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I implemented meaningful changes,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zRA2DSW9j
That brought unintended consequences,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡln5MIinS0u
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7zimpjDJI
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSals4jbTY
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And I learned critical lessons,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LsORey2zT
Not just about an industry I did not know,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAqSjrpQcX
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbHtk7fNPc
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEqJc2rOz0
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVn2KrmXVZN
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsw3jFykTCo
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPLQnbfcve
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvjyuz7V6V
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUFRK1HxGR
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYjdOEk1Rx
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CoFBNZaGl
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddcBfvCp6D
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4VNbkeJ2z
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SqdRNI7dC
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuY1JztwvG
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmaR8YIRrG
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After two decades of gestation,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8Wiv7hHH3
I've now given birth to my first child,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXzNvz8Nn0
The afterbirth has been cleaned,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgm1b8zJZoO
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsDQ9eRiYo
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I fell in love with her the moment59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GDdh5Pji1
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrnOh6xBYp
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEMAiaUyop
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uHj6GzPWi
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5kHSG6xSF
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZAqmAKAgR
Hoping they will love her59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9PpSPyNiU
But knowing they may not.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYbmrI4tNa
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2yksNQKRe
I will home school her, teach her all I know,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYd8aP2fIRB
And ready her as best I can to face the world,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewCBkgdOxY
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKW0749GFej
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsKaVbNI5q
In a year or so if life will allow it,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaFLdGb4Ko
My heart is large and still has room,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIEV1ZA9Sv
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwd2iYO2ycT
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: