I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCDwlEiFFJ
Every waking moment and in my every dream,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplTyXLUCHb
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTE4NkS3NX
As is still the case although the work is now done.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQg1B2ypihW
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Idealistic young lawyer,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXVtTUhl3P
In his first posting as a dean,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCN2QdOaFo
In a for-profit business school,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzB3qC3QUGA
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XwtRWne1p
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Worked very long hours,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4g3uLyATS8
To change what was wrong,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXC6NzcHs2H
Achieved great success,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXzloX27uB
Which all came to naught.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb874xioBdn
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbFkWtDOf8
Stubbornly refusing to accept,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYO2nhG5Oqn
That which could be changed through simple hard work,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2cXj6C25N
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGD2YKFKo0
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A classic clash of missions and visions,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeYgNB0iwP
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUrHwzBl7d
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFSnDR3yk2
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlEqm0kxEN
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I implemented meaningful changes,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTUfpCYcfV
That brought unintended consequences,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqHcfNMUfr
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKONrfhRvu
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1YHRt2abH
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And I learned critical lessons,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIcsa8hae3
Not just about an industry I did not know,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GYQiCjHJk
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBpxXSFg80
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWssRSqyJG
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSR3kKZQcU
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZf29pLsVJY
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjBQ4KYGlX
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfTNsLAp86
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4arQEmWxt
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUX0s2C9BmN
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnUhZ6Q1jh
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEoKDiAUJa
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BNvYoaxRu
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8E0LzG9V2G
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymjoHa4XBT
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhua5Dfwrp
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After two decades of gestation,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0w84lw7gOp
I've now given birth to my first child,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiQjGJSUg0
The afterbirth has been cleaned,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3Q3NYrguq
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzKuHfjhVM
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I fell in love with her the moment88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AibwGS3yF
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjEZUHYPWW
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6luMJxRHCO
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqlcAKPiAW
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVs7Kbe8Qc
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdpStYh64i
Hoping they will love her88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RufFeUBcn
But knowing they may not.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6jiWeArqs
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4KwQjZ7XyD
I will home school her, teach her all I know,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcLWuEU2Nj
And ready her as best I can to face the world,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYFfkZuyWT
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7RnKZxI8z
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJneMzlyYh
In a year or so if life will allow it,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQoQD3MfbO
My heart is large and still has room,88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONGPWlOL6K
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.88Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BwiNk51FV
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: