I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ATGA5xvRA
Every waking moment and in my every dream,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkFXRCJVAe
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhnHKeU29w
As is still the case although the work is now done.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtr3taoha55
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Idealistic young lawyer,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcOXN4P8yY
In his first posting as a dean,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZlyepzxe0
In a for-profit business school,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTxB9Cs6TW
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupRtcZkwdY
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Worked very long hours,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zFlgy9VpT
To change what was wrong,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYHpLYnY3w
Achieved great success,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIdmm20jp8
Which all came to naught.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HeYyG3OzL
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMBo3Q2ZHA
Stubbornly refusing to accept,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1SvDc9gOJ
That which could be changed through simple hard work,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UuNLA7Stt
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxLSx6uo2h
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A classic clash of missions and visions,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQe8DHlFhv
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciRO0FamBx
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4PsqUWQ0E
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlujyZwhCeT
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I implemented meaningful changes,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKaejlJYr6m
That brought unintended consequences,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLNQoFGc2S
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDNmA71ZKj
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiOKDcu7qT
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And I learned critical lessons,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraTvuPNtNn
Not just about an industry I did not know,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4d6z58nbo
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15dChPwS14
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRpaacCf4s
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JDUtl3dod
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSQ7tm457V
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpecIobQG8T
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIjpDj7uaw
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGjlaWNJbf
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSi0xEargXP
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iRVWY4xa0
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIwvGBlyGH
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XXamJLBtD
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjXLI4KqBJ
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccJViAmLKo
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIt2XFa40x
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After two decades of gestation,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBivjZYY9j
I've now given birth to my first child,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCKXrAqmwP
The afterbirth has been cleaned,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJvl24wMAK
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuA89h5qHej
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I fell in love with her the moment86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDTZRhaIyO
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32ee4pGIJ4
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolWCdIcrVC
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2zX4X5cki
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMGtQEMpwg
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jWxHqalLw
Hoping they will love her86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1w4L5NXym
But knowing they may not.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGc5m3Cweq
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9d8AT3fBSE
I will home school her, teach her all I know,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjheLK4kaOQ
And ready her as best I can to face the world,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08sZOwRW4x
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcZf5dv4ih
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnM7U6Vflvh
In a year or so if life will allow it,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnVxsraAXi
My heart is large and still has room,86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfueSpsr96
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Td6A0Jgs5
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: