I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26rYWd43Rq
Every waking moment and in my every dream,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgulPo67TBC
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6y0w85ajH7
As is still the case although the work is now done.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13MkcFMQaC
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Idealistic young lawyer,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaT5Oqj0ywX
In his first posting as a dean,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBs1C0LRauE
In a for-profit business school,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsD93ZzWt5
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0C6mqb4ROY
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Worked very long hours,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCGMcdm7DJ
To change what was wrong,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1CMysMhpd
Achieved great success,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9hBoV9Rxg
Which all came to naught.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLaSLPm49V
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGA1myzuuxS
Stubbornly refusing to accept,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyGVVN2Wu7
That which could be changed through simple hard work,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypXfmbbRSu
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvLw2nMbzR
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A classic clash of missions and visions,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8YbZSDIJ2
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIKsduTegl
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7VgR71jJS
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWL3RcLFUB
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I implemented meaningful changes,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wTYlfd1W5
That brought unintended consequences,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPsurErqV7
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdS7ZEnX8wR
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6opDhBskSV
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And I learned critical lessons,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHZ75lPkY5
Not just about an industry I did not know,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPE9st49Kt
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCaAZCXElu
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5emC5czIWq
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNo99ig0qZY
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXLup9MOci
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqB2nenHB72
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFyU8cjMc6
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZut9aHTMG
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbaB8gHYQnH
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEnAsfruEV
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzN2qdmAf2D
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecvkc7Mzo3
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNb03JikBOs
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIVPzFZBjU
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPT0wLBEHu0
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After two decades of gestation,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1StNnm4D7r
I've now given birth to my first child,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrE85SLDtIn
The afterbirth has been cleaned,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuq292V5Dlb
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fIarQkbDY
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I fell in love with her the moment182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGn1yS6mDV
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmlP9FA49Z
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehKDWNEBdd
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuPzxzJTha
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FMQOuGXXo
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0oTFXT8pXl
Hoping they will love her182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bHGYqU4FH
But knowing they may not.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYvbrtgDuh
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ326gWCtHrX
I will home school her, teach her all I know,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpNzPZlxSz
And ready her as best I can to face the world,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFU5G77sgC
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAdM7va0em
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7SXa8qprc
In a year or so if life will allow it,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbHD43c35F
My heart is large and still has room,182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PekgNt4U7
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.182Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwwUeHLMvT
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: