I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkT4iFnu9Z8
Every waking moment and in my every dream,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzm9scWaKT0
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CYahzMfJn
As is still the case although the work is now done.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNSh6semwf
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Idealistic young lawyer,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sdy72V85q
In his first posting as a dean,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFKvX3jHbl
In a for-profit business school,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKacOiZpeTK
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Lu1jeBeio
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Worked very long hours,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfnwMo5x3J
To change what was wrong,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbTBjnNd27
Achieved great success,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTDhuJr7nr
Which all came to naught.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhAwLkhkEX
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8Hwt7mjil
Stubbornly refusing to accept,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0jouWnHCs
That which could be changed through simple hard work,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs0FCcCuT9
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfsV5HkEal
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A classic clash of missions and visions,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmIwdPpWii
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPH5WSvleZ
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YNTQBkzn0
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmq0Nr9WrN
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I implemented meaningful changes,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dlrajAxxV
That brought unintended consequences,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxIXA9T25A
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIdbCG3PjZ
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUS2epO4bqF
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And I learned critical lessons,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUmFS9MYtx
Not just about an industry I did not know,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLeo4OeoA5E
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoecuPaBRRR
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oodlTJ1bH
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PB0FzK3LT
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkAepWvCYg
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡii8CtR54qs
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DTTDrZmon
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBvPt1qawH
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtoVB08ZPC
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQ6Z7jMZlp
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwK5TnGut9z
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRu3vma4ib
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxE2QYJ4v5
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cT5WsYv3l
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbeoAMlrZB
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After two decades of gestation,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxbplZq438
I've now given birth to my first child,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ43Mhx9YtSY
The afterbirth has been cleaned,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLq5pNi8xf
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqRa33mPec
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I fell in love with her the moment393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwi65FsJ7I
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmZmbwJw62
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBk0Pv6bqc
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EvrjePuKw
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWFlBsKZf3
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYechGnKI8W
Hoping they will love her393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HOvsibI96
But knowing they may not.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoalbw1Fj55
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWZtsc2ocC
I will home school her, teach her all I know,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8MpfMMt6n
And ready her as best I can to face the world,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZxmIfXiCp
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFM7c9MK8V
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9DMKsAAsh
In a year or so if life will allow it,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrLt2oJcoI
My heart is large and still has room,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpn9FFHG9Ar
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sDsjr61Fu
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: