I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpfxmVEnfQ
Every waking moment and in my every dream,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcDmPiFtpj
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgv8HaP9ooN
As is still the case although the work is now done.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3DdKKsUtQ
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Idealistic young lawyer,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdAGBmU8NJ
In his first posting as a dean,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmdrImoMQ8
In a for-profit business school,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBdo0h3gSQ
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XKJKsybBM
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Worked very long hours,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJ8EYnGPqu
To change what was wrong,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdMFqxNC6s
Achieved great success,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIqxBEHxDp
Which all came to naught.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOruqj5cz8I
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZHzngFOSG
Stubbornly refusing to accept,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rvCLqPZsd
That which could be changed through simple hard work,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBehuLZwaz
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCHJqEiHDZ
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A classic clash of missions and visions,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPd8cnYqmwA
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhvwGFe9zj
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv8GsnZUlsz
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuZUyFzHex
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I implemented meaningful changes,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfzIL3mAwQ
That brought unintended consequences,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXExJQZlMl
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIP5ajTNhH5
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kholZwiU7
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And I learned critical lessons,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pR80Udxpd
Not just about an industry I did not know,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BqJWfIAlz
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh35IN7YSkY
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfwbJA3Bey
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzNg0RodAL
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdxQ2zqnqn
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnvZpOFKAH
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzv8nWlAM4
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ609Z9YGGwm
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6CAx2ZnNi
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1SYJ3KWt8
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVb8dYtqnc
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroxi9buq3K
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEEWKLEoSO
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGivdu3FIxd
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3GgorQkv9
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After two decades of gestation,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAzmy1qZ5s
I've now given birth to my first child,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xxPj8oj5a
The afterbirth has been cleaned,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPMcqzqpO0
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaQ2ytkLs8
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I fell in love with her the moment159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AE5hW2hl8
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAshxHh7y8G
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHim1s7HbGq
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeQZOy4AcO
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3unzbfnJ5
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3QaqT4Owz
Hoping they will love her159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uyDzuZzsa
But knowing they may not.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXowlpTM9L
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzKcc7byan
I will home school her, teach her all I know,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOp3CvcRbO
And ready her as best I can to face the world,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuygHGZT5Mg
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXStd90P8zU
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpejN68t1p
In a year or so if life will allow it,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOX4wu49bpB
My heart is large and still has room,159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBUf5ScqQb
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrpt7itLe1
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: