I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSgkrkF6es
Every waking moment and in my every dream,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1S5F1DRQh
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiB5mBn39ek
As is still the case although the work is now done.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQAiLgtxUeD
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Idealistic young lawyer,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzCwFqWLi1
In his first posting as a dean,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiX4u3Cc61
In a for-profit business school,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrk2xMjWxp6
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMtVSrZwpM
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Worked very long hours,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUygA0FBRI
To change what was wrong,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjTbUIDqdw
Achieved great success,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXalV9bYVK
Which all came to naught.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgR5fBrUcF
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuqDfe9yQ1
Stubbornly refusing to accept,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSDPKCWdRb
That which could be changed through simple hard work,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxaQXcGHCY
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2VhAEvaHf
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A classic clash of missions and visions,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZWW7NZ2W9
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1fDF8jwwg
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLXVe12u7v
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIA3O6xaiLU
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I implemented meaningful changes,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbCDcVkuFw
That brought unintended consequences,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTZmxqI2fg
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbASL8PkKge
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJrVQOCTL9
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And I learned critical lessons,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFfE9zWtYH
Not just about an industry I did not know,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXupiakpF3
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULc8TxuHoI
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2J5vXjJyH
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0hQ6mH0tm
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73jn3lIWJx
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpozLbWq0TV
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6VbuvgyPcC
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4KSPUx7ct
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bgJCy4Blt
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ef3CE7LKK
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisgPJK1GnB
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9m5YomiiK
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiJdG4bUkx
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAk15P6JXcb
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfcVe6HeOZZ
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After two decades of gestation,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EsiL2BirS
I've now given birth to my first child,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGUbksDE3a
The afterbirth has been cleaned,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMG4TkNKX6e
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMeL42dc2L
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I fell in love with her the moment146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92HT0NXvqQ
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mtRKpOHGh
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnQ3q4GAUl
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgn3AbKY9zF
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEzFhXcBS0
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMFtcAKAwf
Hoping they will love her146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0tXJukIe2
But knowing they may not.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9VUJyP8ivN
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKKIPAs7XV
I will home school her, teach her all I know,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZwUUPWzOS
And ready her as best I can to face the world,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiBVsnmBjp
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZB7r2cyOoh
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBwBsQ1lJD
In a year or so if life will allow it,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLo6TFXIceK
My heart is large and still has room,146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBisBc4ScTm
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pzV1F7E9e
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: