I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgO4y93q6i
Every waking moment and in my every dream,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszNdReZ0Wh
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCpHERcnZO
As is still the case although the work is now done.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5DiZUw5ZQ
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Idealistic young lawyer,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VLaKFqteR
In his first posting as a dean,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbqwn6TtLR
In a for-profit business school,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfPcufN3bj
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXSah9bAUn
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Worked very long hours,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFrgEyI6yy
To change what was wrong,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgocHfYhQP
Achieved great success,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZjoLtsqgP
Which all came to naught.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6032s16f2
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPh866w0r8
Stubbornly refusing to accept,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYjt9gimwQ
That which could be changed through simple hard work,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXuy94ntIj
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTl32qagUF
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A classic clash of missions and visions,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbWNxDuXQ7
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlfW2HdIhA
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiRlIFmK8A
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEBJhiAjvg
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I implemented meaningful changes,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdGtkvZb8v
That brought unintended consequences,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0G6M1bto32
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZog4qk0Ln
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSX32fista
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And I learned critical lessons,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuc4qJ7fbe
Not just about an industry I did not know,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CftsVW5op
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXXGwkA87F
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqybDx6X2ya
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5txvWvmJO
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqCVJmegPO
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvrCUL6qK8
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuVN0Lpnnj
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfrvmM6odS
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnD6nwHNmCR
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3coiKIVKZ3
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURru3w9ZyL
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrmvoUD5mH
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlU4bTqMOA
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAIA9qpTC3
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrq3jYlJxZc
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After two decades of gestation,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovtscENtEH
I've now given birth to my first child,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnqYJzbjfE
The afterbirth has been cleaned,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGMKq1V6Va
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcOQX8pGkS
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I fell in love with her the moment389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDcpxthBn6
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzUtuQWaUx
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKhRazVojq
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQ8JRgxZCs
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnfhn4oGkD
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYv9qtdIhDX
Hoping they will love her389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RDOfZBu3C
But knowing they may not.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKx3H6A3e5
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTVQkTCK2c
I will home school her, teach her all I know,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHXx7QgQIp
And ready her as best I can to face the world,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcPiVMXrUP
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTSDgFdnLt
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1B84I3qB2
In a year or so if life will allow it,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOpUjY9KCv
My heart is large and still has room,389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqt8qrOqAHU
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.389Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqaoAOuXxR
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You can hear me read this poem in my newest poetry reading (of just this poem) here: