I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdYUm8gT3G
Every waking moment and in my every dream,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImb1bLjAnP
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGgESKYH15
As is still the case although the work is now done.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZGCJs5Ndl
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Idealistic young lawyer,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AG4YsTtRI
In his first posting as a dean,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIJvKWxU9l
In a for-profit business school,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1UQCTpekK
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdjPL4OoF8
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Worked very long hours,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7nFvdC49Z
To change what was wrong,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAF43LZTs6
Achieved great success,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6k2h0pbcX
Which all came to naught.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbulDPhz65
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtl45k1PbbS
Stubbornly refusing to accept,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCFs1vPExR
That which could be changed through simple hard work,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1W4ByEK4Oe
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJmWBjGMDU
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A classic clash of missions and visions,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0tfQtioi3
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkQ1HPEUyI
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNeylfTaeii
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Nahi1yDIQ
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I implemented meaningful changes,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBz64njF8W
That brought unintended consequences,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoKd1NIr05
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvs2RoYgWfb
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7HUZr50dc
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And I learned critical lessons,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqO7qdFbG4j
Not just about an industry I did not know,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqAMwRodXY
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiMqgZPyjI
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWd5Om6JAR
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRMzyhQHTz
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJucTQ07xOV
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIM5nkAFqn
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHiujNmDp7
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKA4SlGyKw
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLfYEu9upI
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6Z1gqSKjw
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBRHpOB8AT
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ibZNdB9Z4
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQixo1ledyi
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCtp6c4xdd
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5MalYksNv
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After two decades of gestation,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyG3LiCeb1
I've now given birth to my first child,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BupZz6r6G
The afterbirth has been cleaned,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzQvurPSb1
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpL23eme1Fv
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I fell in love with her the moment134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrenlugusw9
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefVrEg9uG6
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLkJfQNOW9
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvcmDPGfxg
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeCxFRh7Gs
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOEpkO0cAd
Hoping they will love her134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYepAaOIZJx
But knowing they may not.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHdZwNXjRN
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL87DrWeXOJ
I will home school her, teach her all I know,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIwCufjboU
And ready her as best I can to face the world,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzOr0TmUkO
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZ0c8HJXHN
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bPLsWyfFR
In a year or so if life will allow it,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcwzZ6H63r
My heart is large and still has room,134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopYd7FrpuE
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3fGEhErlp
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: