I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yhQXQuxDN
Every waking moment and in my every dream,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIIYaAr6Wy
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UcBrvNWJf
As is still the case although the work is now done.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfjj5cupJ7
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Idealistic young lawyer,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1xk1qDhm0
In his first posting as a dean,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFpJ3N39YD
In a for-profit business school,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVAa0hgliJ
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NhLodm7WL
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Worked very long hours,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhQVVXLR6D
To change what was wrong,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3YgZu2ZUw
Achieved great success,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFklG6Zo0n
Which all came to naught.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9Pwrvrsg3
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehiRyBCkbF
Stubbornly refusing to accept,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA33D0LqnSi
That which could be changed through simple hard work,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsu4lSZu7rP
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkE0i0AEvt
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A classic clash of missions and visions,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAKV5dNBES
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8YcJGDXrO
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFLXe5HgVc
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSigIVJBtTw
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I implemented meaningful changes,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEl58H0iE9
That brought unintended consequences,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgVMpiXYyM
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7nBzWXY9q
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMK6Kn5tvkq
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And I learned critical lessons,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqwWpkoGiq
Not just about an industry I did not know,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjzHcZyc5X
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoT520EUhxp
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJRxR6ym5y
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0qJRPFs2u
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBph9XLW4c
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nojEAHmQS
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmP2eXhpVDf
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VfcuiXaRU
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3zgztvXbJ
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvhnjGhZob
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFp7n0IWNa
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJolmpDT76v
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdy9qAaNtjb
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGXQwnY8kV
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WEs9GTCiA
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After two decades of gestation,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCZUpq4rgo
I've now given birth to my first child,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LTps7GEzT
The afterbirth has been cleaned,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7zXd3hrOe
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmJ8Owi2KT
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I fell in love with her the moment141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLTUxUSJ1h
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FduZ8aNCq
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjA6vmN6z7
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMnNGirypp
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGjQuisOSz
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKAidex0Le
Hoping they will love her141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNEEKRSQC2
But knowing they may not.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhXbrGgQnB
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50jEnc6CFo
I will home school her, teach her all I know,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiCId5ncBt
And ready her as best I can to face the world,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALP71O0eO4
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZv02mc46S
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcnqrWJxUG
In a year or so if life will allow it,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZ2nTKuG6n
My heart is large and still has room,141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RV2RKUdTg
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.141Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnmAUga7BC
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: