I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZXOoOZe6e
Every waking moment and in my every dream,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbQ97N8zzC
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoN40Lx9gB2
As is still the case although the work is now done.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1MTudmLTL
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Idealistic young lawyer,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gWw4GjgzQ
In his first posting as a dean,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKRefn0xfd
In a for-profit business school,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupd53inulp
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8ULk2rUPT
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Worked very long hours,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZFKHCtQJO
To change what was wrong,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbdH4Ynpev
Achieved great success,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxSabeMVzBB
Which all came to naught.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQPsWCJvnn
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5qFQ6FbQE
Stubbornly refusing to accept,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZIEZFXXuG
That which could be changed through simple hard work,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwqUkqorfz
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCfLqb6krZ
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A classic clash of missions and visions,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPJe6bvv1x
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvm5AXhflR
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXzYmfy1j5
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiW5iZ9jHV2
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I implemented meaningful changes,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vqRdevSAu
That brought unintended consequences,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzfji4DF5X
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeihb1zVBZ
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8FaGkU6YH
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And I learned critical lessons,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFFz25OUB8
Not just about an industry I did not know,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDluqlgVuRr
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ryT1eL7or
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94CGELDGSa
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LNJRwK6ri
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1YwsYpNN1
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvW1avEvHQ
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5e1mxJWaC
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzytVIsfnlQ
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JhV7qdlvQ
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabhXmqs4fg
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrlPsb72CRA
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmc1A7ul0H
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYcN11dCSh
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡijUhiWgDxK
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPaffUHXHdu
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After two decades of gestation,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhbRS0TEf5
I've now given birth to my first child,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmshThd3fkT
The afterbirth has been cleaned,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3an0dOOFP
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbIcQAfu3d
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I fell in love with her the moment66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfj72yQhVun
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWThx4jB3mq
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUFE0ATPA8
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Y3Va0j4bG
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYW02gyfouV
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIZruqpVnx
Hoping they will love her66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprDM9cla9a
But knowing they may not.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeZQvlXgkK
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYCGfqvb3X
I will home school her, teach her all I know,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3tzrLFQIu
And ready her as best I can to face the world,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgRZww27nA
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2G5mKcLZg8
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDp4j27FMa
In a year or so if life will allow it,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKsKlgThCF
My heart is large and still has room,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGkK9L1gog
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETJ7tIFOED
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: