I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLTZkZ8qS6
Every waking moment and in my every dream,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiP7zSStq5g
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlJZ9Ydqze
As is still the case although the work is now done.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapuiJNQbn7
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Idealistic young lawyer,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleLX6fstb0
In his first posting as a dean,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduNdgxU0Tz
In a for-profit business school,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTshHGiowT
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSPExKSxzG
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Worked very long hours,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrB6hh5KEc
To change what was wrong,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAQUzpjnu3
Achieved great success,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcHfEuBZHy
Which all came to naught.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sAX4GTrhY
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTjuxNeaiO
Stubbornly refusing to accept,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDiugdFksc
That which could be changed through simple hard work,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqGP6Q9PPb
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXlIs2ZKUy
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A classic clash of missions and visions,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdhPUbDRPS
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7F2ZZFoge
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuE1rIshS2b
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukRgPDZt4r
81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWaaweDeNW
I implemented meaningful changes,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5lHS09zQf
That brought unintended consequences,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SvcDb3CKR
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBAiocgjAR
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLBbGLouGL
81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6I9GZsuHL
And I learned critical lessons,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyO6Roy6eI
Not just about an industry I did not know,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7beKtdIXwl
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5rVxvrlUd
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtnejQyqFA
81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUI6hcQ4lE
I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLufCduXPh9
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7CZnPZtJ2
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSCxWtNhj5
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXY0qSCiNuz
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6y1nBaMvO
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1s7cZ4lIMB
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZRS4iAvvQ
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMsxaH92My
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMm49e16tY
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpi3XsvOPZI
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzFzDBJT4Y
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9T0nLdgU3
81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLY4rSoOHrd
After two decades of gestation,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0ICpRfJbW
I've now given birth to my first child,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBJuqCPBRC
The afterbirth has been cleaned,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWARi3wItLx
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAMbKtq0zW
81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HcYFnyHiX
I fell in love with her the moment81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡig7pFRcpW3
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksKX6kztS9
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0mroF2QtE
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEM8qV7vxZV
81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxodyJQj6mq
Now I'm searching for a literary agent81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJDJGUt1Hk
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguaUMifO3h
Hoping they will love her81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalaOpTAaen
But knowing they may not.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnjGAYdubk
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRhONTJem2
I will home school her, teach her all I know,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2CLyWFH3r
And ready her as best I can to face the world,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqJFjxvrhS
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLE9Eud6NSs
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xetOe9br2
In a year or so if life will allow it,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkGtXd5WQY
My heart is large and still has room,81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUbQY7KrjU
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.81Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAskmQJJ6LO
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: