I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNxay9M9dO
Every waking moment and in my every dream,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacs1pD3ENg
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdDvBocVP0
As is still the case although the work is now done.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGtNs8FeZG
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Idealistic young lawyer,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNQhFZu6bj
In his first posting as a dean,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4Mx8TKH0o
In a for-profit business school,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJFWh2rUWa
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20dUCP1227
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Worked very long hours,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCIOUEttIl
To change what was wrong,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6Bampm5pG
Achieved great success,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWOjXN0o4L
Which all came to naught.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOSRM6C4IC
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBHepdUwTc
Stubbornly refusing to accept,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7yGVMxAwk
That which could be changed through simple hard work,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Y9VPplnWO
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLV6xNPW58
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A classic clash of missions and visions,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJM7qeaKUD
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlI81Dbfde
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BCA82VbfF
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVof5jFvEf
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I implemented meaningful changes,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeu1Kzogmt
That brought unintended consequences,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3tIKcsi1T
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0bv8LPslt
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAuqcjFUIm
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And I learned critical lessons,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoX0dhwvX7A
Not just about an industry I did not know,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JyYwkT9FH
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRDTFSv03R
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMiLbveFj4L
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7CIF5vcne
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDw5VpEsZe
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2x1j0aX0zX
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikRaY8xdWZ
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54m0pGGAAm
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZonaEX2b4T
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyn1kJrQjo2
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiE1nyHBCuP
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1V6s9hSooR
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQdiK7Kzzz
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtv76fwYc4N
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBt4iMQDhI
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After two decades of gestation,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0oYJp45YPX
I've now given birth to my first child,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rUzIsHGn7
The afterbirth has been cleaned,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgP04pdgiG
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8U0JwGWWg9
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I fell in love with her the moment137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6o36vfEej
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANjrYl82yY
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZO8Qr4iGAg
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7LBqOrvdH
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVSO9NNegS
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmCHI5gQ3v
Hoping they will love her137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaprJVA3I0y
But knowing they may not.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lcGMXdftf
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnureWjDr3e
I will home school her, teach her all I know,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdQuHA9GnH
And ready her as best I can to face the world,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf684LXbSWb
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfXEG5skSD
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6hkYDBZGt
In a year or so if life will allow it,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6uTmWnNLj
My heart is large and still has room,137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISEWpuTAU4
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9XUjSAT4o
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: