I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzYVFHYiFc
Every waking moment and in my every dream,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZtERuLFcE
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjRpyfhpQ2
As is still the case although the work is now done.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyxwoMwokZ
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Idealistic young lawyer,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1P1d4Sv8y
In his first posting as a dean,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZMqfhuyQd
In a for-profit business school,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYWUz9vgKe
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA38Ro8H3Iw
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Worked very long hours,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdh2tnr6Rp
To change what was wrong,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDz340z8Jo
Achieved great success,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqUTO31UCL
Which all came to naught.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXxgaf9S1i
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBP9rgbekEB
Stubbornly refusing to accept,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbF0mBYpXal
That which could be changed through simple hard work,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnRXGQzKSJ
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtwmYtKewk
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A classic clash of missions and visions,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljV7w7AlND
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6aneY4eiz
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8f0Nnq9iW
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPG4qaAXxGz
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I implemented meaningful changes,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTPI5owiWJ
That brought unintended consequences,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJrBvlxQy3
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKZCsiOb6O
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhnpQzleMg
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And I learned critical lessons,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcCTFRPkM5d
Not just about an industry I did not know,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiicJl05GB
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89AP5GoprL
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhz6Jhj82xt
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzifgHFPEF4
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFGbmBBZ6H
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9h1acTOwLG
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZb4mhpwIC
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryRLrzxD0s
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8AfI4hHNZ
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAO3uGE6Pwp
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUBMR4Ilr4
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcpcobGuQG
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AmJdAILXF
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT65TbisNIN
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRoLOTZiZO
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After two decades of gestation,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmTRPOLkaL
I've now given birth to my first child,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9DfFTr30U
The afterbirth has been cleaned,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBp819nuzh7
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUzpF6c0WH
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I fell in love with her the moment136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqySZsmKZV
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSLZwH8yMK
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMOqBuMtH0
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3rn6TCJ9r
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5g2lZ0C0pZ
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN0ZDFXWdO5
Hoping they will love her136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEZWGlUJxA
But knowing they may not.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkSNujNmbG
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfp68aQ6GO
I will home school her, teach her all I know,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggSKmzRfLP
And ready her as best I can to face the world,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nasvgNuXm
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiFRIhM9zC1
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5sakdT8mt
In a year or so if life will allow it,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKDCmji86T
My heart is large and still has room,136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8f3ncDdUzq
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMrYPs9kpH
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: