I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSDJN7cWF3
Every waking moment and in my every dream,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUhasSivHX
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Y541ivijs
As is still the case although the work is now done.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6lHxCsTuy
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Idealistic young lawyer,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQR1wpfD0wF
In his first posting as a dean,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsZbTyiR6z
In a for-profit business school,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVbkx3azBC
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSvPe3ykru
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Worked very long hours,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbnxos5yQQ
To change what was wrong,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDFrtCzSi9
Achieved great success,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCBH5WYOOR
Which all came to naught.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmbEHzTH63
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSzBMvI6RH
Stubbornly refusing to accept,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0MCJeGGCs
That which could be changed through simple hard work,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkciNzkujOG
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NSksk6QP9
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A classic clash of missions and visions,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrvKpelrLS
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvokHOVUxQ5
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMx3zUZL6Ry
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0Byl61E9c
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I implemented meaningful changes,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQntitAsHU
That brought unintended consequences,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CaYQzX2XG
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWysYBHke5h
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwBj91tFy4
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And I learned critical lessons,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFphYHUcIV
Not just about an industry I did not know,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWVvwF9FnK
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsv5aZcYNEm
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5E9yR0ZHp
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jZwJPfXR7
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaECWSbiFC
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuiqoCoO4N
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMod8DKNU7
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuudqmYEbhs
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlPncWhhHL
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDZRhDsYcP
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53p2pw3QIy
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbA3OYT4uSD
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoOtCzKyUY
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8HOa5kpdS
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qdjyrEWq6
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After two decades of gestation,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3t4p7noLsr
I've now given birth to my first child,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSi22Onu0x5
The afterbirth has been cleaned,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAnVxjFqMT
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzO1937iob
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I fell in love with her the moment83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRQ6bCbLtr
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUu2gnoYK70
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26ERuos5XN
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5d3XiPebJI
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGqYEekZUr
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOFS8JjU1D
Hoping they will love her83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutTDpj7DXD
But knowing they may not.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOvi3gt5ci
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9FRtSOApe
I will home school her, teach her all I know,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpGrR65LMi
And ready her as best I can to face the world,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2LCpb2Pvj
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6R58vG6WP
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaNUDlPcGf
In a year or so if life will allow it,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DXa5NibGb
My heart is large and still has room,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1mr629DLa
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAx7nKfqC17
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: