I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuSe2TIH3H
Every waking moment and in my every dream,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR2Y874pSqu
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLNSayWEli
As is still the case although the work is now done.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagm71O8MkW
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Idealistic young lawyer,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPvJiL8hVS
In his first posting as a dean,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiPsy0xcb3
In a for-profit business school,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugyPxKjnn6
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfnlv1IF2u
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Worked very long hours,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcej1VBrQI
To change what was wrong,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5x92RWWs3Y
Achieved great success,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtIKN7Y9ci
Which all came to naught.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2VwtL6t5z
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjgCBIyCdDA
Stubbornly refusing to accept,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4fHCY1c9e
That which could be changed through simple hard work,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUpjehzy5e
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSNpWAh32w
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A classic clash of missions and visions,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBaFPP4Baq
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYo8iwW8eU
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLKmqgwMW1
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHy0XJMFIR
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I implemented meaningful changes,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDZZIFBgOJ
That brought unintended consequences,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9cCDMK8Oj
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIWGifo5djT
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3pTvilXNa
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And I learned critical lessons,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobrjOb6sU6
Not just about an industry I did not know,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9fRj4p5EI
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbildDSAoX0
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NnxotAQzc
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGLU9DV6Wq
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOr2usboGOL
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6P4rzpMxJt
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWROC4zUA2
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBhruZOxen
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTF9QHXHlZP
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLAkQYPbyj
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnAPLlZYz3
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRNOcQkwSt
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuW79eheTj
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4G2S3qaqAv
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCS5qtvQCu
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After two decades of gestation,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7xLAaTHVo
I've now given birth to my first child,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHLq3YYFSh
The afterbirth has been cleaned,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeGmkbwo0s
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWbXnYLUFt
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I fell in love with her the moment161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UF9ZPOGOL
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgJdIc7KsT
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTX5Qi4l8a
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWWa4sa7AF
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dNWJgpJrg
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCRlqDLsjp
Hoping they will love her161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBoVKZbxVL
But knowing they may not.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbawjTryl3
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwj9q2UcOtF
I will home school her, teach her all I know,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6PDSml1Sy
And ready her as best I can to face the world,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvxP0gYnn6
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dWmnlrgko
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9e2SHOF69A
In a year or so if life will allow it,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Yrtc8B1nM
My heart is large and still has room,161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaipDfN3C8v
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.161Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMcS93cKjL
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: