I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNDBC4zHMI
Every waking moment and in my every dream,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1DZ6EwS4E
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIm1XGcY0L
As is still the case although the work is now done.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxkHBcNdTF
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Idealistic young lawyer,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckv6hVqQBi
In his first posting as a dean,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfnWR1OIxB
In a for-profit business school,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSYpeNkV4o
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZs9UzqqWf
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Worked very long hours,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEW74yZr2L1
To change what was wrong,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkz5tNbMTX
Achieved great success,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSnfN6XtNY
Which all came to naught.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTRdQgO84Q
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58ekSVtEqr
Stubbornly refusing to accept,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhgk2qnf8X
That which could be changed through simple hard work,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ybxPhT6Nm
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyeaf0CWPo
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A classic clash of missions and visions,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bqv8QEbgj
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4gi8DDTE9
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmWoOvbMEb
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0ij17y3ig
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I implemented meaningful changes,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOL0hnj0P08
That brought unintended consequences,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLC0pnhmvDJ
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5i2P5ew4vr
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kG3OceJkU
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And I learned critical lessons,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TJIWoE5Wb
Not just about an industry I did not know,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcfpSQ9G3s
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3qGtfb5V1
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIG1Y26A0c
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrI5adErc2R
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRbO4AAquC
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXXqp8JMPs
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHYEtigsUs
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkc59MyYte
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NpAuuqmum
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhG7O6w6rXJ
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8uSvNI6lYa
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkiDadZWIs
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhNiLVDnMS
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYG9GgR2geT
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHWbOo95Te
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After two decades of gestation,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1sIFKxC6b
I've now given birth to my first child,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJtJ1bBP8B
The afterbirth has been cleaned,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8l52udF4T
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05LGlhWHT6
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I fell in love with her the moment73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZVgU68eMy
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90DSIcTq2r
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdwX6UswnP
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqPZIxko4P
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd02uyLWmdi
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2LDBrt6HX
Hoping they will love her73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFk4qzyIUC
But knowing they may not.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zUdYmTSas
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVicnlMW5u
I will home school her, teach her all I know,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGs1V0eJgb8
And ready her as best I can to face the world,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8PXYPRewS
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOUTyBpe2K
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRUPTACfW4
In a year or so if life will allow it,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPV8fCHPgT
My heart is large and still has room,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZF37hg04x
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKePGhsvUya
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: