I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOWCQazMxD
Every waking moment and in my every dream,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGhV6ETCi4
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZBLLPqlj4
As is still the case although the work is now done.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyCPEKNeY1
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Idealistic young lawyer,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP61GoPkUsI
In his first posting as a dean,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiJZF3jHIX
In a for-profit business school,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJb0AsBtrGp
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxadJL6lGS
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Worked very long hours,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo91ljCnpVa
To change what was wrong,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguDfhtH71s
Achieved great success,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZJhiG512O
Which all came to naught.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuJrAXw3kM
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6p5pSczqfG
Stubbornly refusing to accept,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9Rtx14BdF
That which could be changed through simple hard work,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CauJ4OCpx
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTJti8hlKH
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A classic clash of missions and visions,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYQJT1n7H8
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4SjRDsAcO
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6J1ZuIn2zT
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXjBCvCSZu
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I implemented meaningful changes,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZbYee9L4R
That brought unintended consequences,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUua1tQagVC
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8K9KQWZloj
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56ZnMlCL1M
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And I learned critical lessons,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEX7JthRbQ
Not just about an industry I did not know,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9AGTRpUQq
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdzM6iqAor
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrz81ch6gwr
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1af1u14Iw
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJtZJ35GLQ
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7UZGjOLpu
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hhxN4sxE3
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDrc3n44Lb
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaM4vGxljsZ
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyovoGtSu4
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc65yUWDHj4
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgug7UMJNrY
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnnPC3Grq8
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSt0ga4wGiO
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9r7eRxIiK6
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After two decades of gestation,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMakQoolnxT
I've now given birth to my first child,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtNwHVtj9d
The afterbirth has been cleaned,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5AlSWLwqLq
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dXlSVhorJ
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I fell in love with her the moment73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5xqWSyutm
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYjqbnQoks
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6DxYg5EcG
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bC5jr9Gf8
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13tf6ahUJB
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbP8K95obF
Hoping they will love her73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2FSB0pdIb
But knowing they may not.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGFDvQxoDA
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGzItVD2jA
I will home school her, teach her all I know,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbSFkKWkiq
And ready her as best I can to face the world,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6zQwdq9xf
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8v9cKhgOwf
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIckVBMm3p1
In a year or so if life will allow it,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgHhOv8kNC
My heart is large and still has room,73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKJm3ANY1F
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.73Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpuGgR1pLH
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: