I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtR64J9qjeq
Every waking moment and in my every dream,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBdlCP60UC
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDM9IQqiYKu
As is still the case although the work is now done.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6IzKb4iJH
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Idealistic young lawyer,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrKQosukcc
In his first posting as a dean,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgSzP4ttrT
In a for-profit business school,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlPlso4be3
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQH1LvhHN9
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Worked very long hours,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIeQuQUTmb
To change what was wrong,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioCLuyDr0w
Achieved great success,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPil0bplu3
Which all came to naught.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2noNff7yh7
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vlZDp5Z5A
Stubbornly refusing to accept,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCWy8FBPyl
That which could be changed through simple hard work,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufICK3ss8C
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeQCZFMW8G
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A classic clash of missions and visions,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcY5Gs6ppc9
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShIKyqQxO2
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ddffqPvun
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovAOu3Sisv
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I implemented meaningful changes,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2s7EYkpWUd
That brought unintended consequences,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7zvY5769W
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9hlnkK0QS
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEpqjTFqYj
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And I learned critical lessons,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0tqZFaMvA
Not just about an industry I did not know,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzK6wJLMZ95
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkI1j8d21yq
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvZIir7r9T
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoiuhMMnb1
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYSTcwyqIc
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcphFQMuWmH
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV19Chk09Hd
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAkgERP0g4
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrh5vYq84CH
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjPZQ7JOal
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnZbcxsgSW
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5BQpUm1hG
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64uJ3ax2Yz
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5pmZxg2Hc
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDl2KCePLA
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After two decades of gestation,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnBmErsTph
I've now given birth to my first child,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcw0vCRlsI
The afterbirth has been cleaned,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqPeqzovlZ
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aqSQXXKx2
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I fell in love with her the moment179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9M3QqKkeQ7
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6DFdKuTZV
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdklij5vv0H
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYm61spPL7j
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc03yslXOib
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzhQdjrdnC
Hoping they will love her179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PWV8ZFTXh
But knowing they may not.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKsswE6q7v
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3dctcnld4
I will home school her, teach her all I know,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuztY0D9oAO
And ready her as best I can to face the world,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRiAxxKRtT
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpYUHcBCnB
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71mBCAWRS2
In a year or so if life will allow it,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeT8p1xhznZ
My heart is large and still has room,179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnyuwbbAtL
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.179Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3i2Ym35qb
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: