I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhR0rnPmQsY
Every waking moment and in my every dream,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRCoBnE84a
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJGKPf9uX0
As is still the case although the work is now done.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZt1sG4wDe
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Idealistic young lawyer,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIjjM8T4Hq
In his first posting as a dean,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ825ATwwF7u
In a for-profit business school,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbyExgBaPe
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkRlRa661n
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Worked very long hours,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbKRihOWuh
To change what was wrong,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8XMd2hL7q
Achieved great success,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TWkx1P9Z6
Which all came to naught.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5IIcCqFTL
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMB1FqYhOi
Stubbornly refusing to accept,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaZkW3penb
That which could be changed through simple hard work,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaytzSNxTfU
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tiFKcPhaC
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A classic clash of missions and visions,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMczxq4znR
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTHVNV9Hpd
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrR2s93ulti
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXurrf9nKdo
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I implemented meaningful changes,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyHIdhXAqI
That brought unintended consequences,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsZK7NzdIl
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ANHmVy4Is
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqaa2122bn
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And I learned critical lessons,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkVcltu07z
Not just about an industry I did not know,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS49ORpivHo
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPT4QBqLD70
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ515OyMVQZC
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPuSZFvKHpX
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT80c5ej9Z6
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnV4k2kayF
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Zm79DarO5
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0iHRF3P9K
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Npe0VkmqG
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaupxlJLSxv
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjSvxsB8zF
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDx1APek8da
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7L6LjdCX3B
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTC8LNcw8s
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRkqq8FP42
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After two decades of gestation,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxbCE551V2
I've now given birth to my first child,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1B2c4GK9Vt
The afterbirth has been cleaned,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvHS4RczWJ
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7cuWCqzkk
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I fell in love with her the moment139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcIbD8kRdR
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7bFgf4ugq
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡry7A5EO173
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9OIdldsZW
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyoGlaBfFB
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSxnIgFr13
Hoping they will love her139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZksT8yCIu
But knowing they may not.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEzm8kPimj
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz690GClB1R
I will home school her, teach her all I know,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfXlNWgEAT
And ready her as best I can to face the world,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIx9kEdcocV
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0frz8kJG3
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bNRmQwLAk
In a year or so if life will allow it,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzZO3VvSWq
My heart is large and still has room,139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjVbuLcxc8
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3vC0WKwFH
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: