I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAe1s47RmQy
Every waking moment and in my every dream,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWgnG1i6rp
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHVIqWhA10
As is still the case although the work is now done.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgFdJCaoPY
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Idealistic young lawyer,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXf2XPITsv
In his first posting as a dean,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr11Mkf81DO
In a for-profit business school,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrf7ATw9wej
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7ZDwMogHB
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Worked very long hours,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LjaLuGwYX
To change what was wrong,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9oHM4P63l
Achieved great success,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqmcQsJFUZ
Which all came to naught.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8i3yIQIEH
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDTfbmlCxp
Stubbornly refusing to accept,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Uyp14Cv5l
That which could be changed through simple hard work,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknvmlrv6uv
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNot9yTJlDN
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A classic clash of missions and visions,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6BJDIR9w7
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVih0YhEgki
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4XhAQegHj
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbLgcjxVSZ
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I implemented meaningful changes,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2nwykxI6w
That brought unintended consequences,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKAWMlKNxc
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAr308E0SBb
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnIKE45qBh
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And I learned critical lessons,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqhZLIU0nl
Not just about an industry I did not know,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbdWBQ1DhF
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01Jjl4szPk
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oj3Qex0Zw
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFUuf6DUaw
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWvNIxxapG
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIlkdgLowu
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JRpDzpvns
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiN51PFAROX
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpLZppQRZE
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5DO9Tt2F3
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7K9CF2ojYX
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZ6DPjEkgT
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMrXWqsEAM
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqTYgHUXDm
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75uFqNQ9nY
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After two decades of gestation,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxFCWfBZCA
I've now given birth to my first child,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeY5WBQZI8N
The afterbirth has been cleaned,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7LpupGw7H
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX34WN6Mehg
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I fell in love with her the moment66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgGwELUzZc
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cScyBj3zl
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMskzZQs62p
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTEDy5lkRq
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUizS3bTo1J
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgwZstWd1Z
Hoping they will love her66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ytxcsOlDq
But knowing they may not.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbzTNNQlhJ
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXS8siluO6a
I will home school her, teach her all I know,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ25llm5g5H
And ready her as best I can to face the world,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVGFv0sD9K
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9yeTO00oD
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc26lJ7LIEI
In a year or so if life will allow it,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyrztd7xf8
My heart is large and still has room,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51t0RVDvsB
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gfT3d9iwu
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: