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Best Poems Written by Brian Lehnen

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This Heart of Mine

You know I hate to love you baby

You're only playin with my heart.

So many dreams you've shattered

So many lives you've torn apart.


If only I could walk away

If my heart could just forget

If the tangled web of love you've spun

Didn't pose such a threat.


Then I could love to love you baby

My heart it could take wings.

I could fall into this love affair

One that had no strings.


But in your hands, my heart a weapon

To be tortured and teased.

My dreams, the ones you've shattered

To be tossed out as you please.


You know I hate to love you baby

Because this heart of mine

Is fragile and it's tender and it's

Living on borrowed time.

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The Endurance of Love

Let's be Ours, I'll be Yours, You'll be mine
Lovin bittersweet like the wine.
Blessed with candlelight and romance, aged with time
It's a love forever endless, yours and mine.

Won't you take my hand and walk with me, into the sunset of our days
Will you hold tight to the memories and cherish them always.
When the road ahead it darkens, my love will light the way
May the mercy of Gods love, protect you this I pray.

Though, I know we have no future, and the end is drawing near
May the love we've always shared help to calm your fears.
When the darkness falls around you, I will whisper in your ear
If you close your eyes, and listen "I love you" is what you'll hear.

I fear not my journey, for the road is paved with gold 
With you by my side, I've never feared growing old.
I only hate to leave you, before our stories told
I thought we'd have more sunsets, I'd have your hand to hold.

Let's be Ours, I'll be yours, You'll be mine
Until we meet again, another place, another time.
It's a love forever endless, yours and mine.

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Red Light District

Short shorts skirts and spike heeled shoes

In the Red light District of your town

On the darkened street corners

There's pleasures of the flesh to be found.


Blondes, brunettes and redheads

Working girls they are.

They earn their living selling flesh

To hungry men with expensive cars.


In the Red light District of your town

Law Enforcement lies in wait.

To persecute and to arrest

Using decoys as bait.


You'd think that the Police

Would have better things to do.

The streets are filled with criminals

That prey on me and you.


Cheap Motels and alcohol

In the Red light District of your town.

No matter what your looking for

Cheap Thrills do abound.

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White Lightnin

It's a proud family tradition

Here in the hills of Tennessee

My grand daddy brewed White Ligntin

And my daddy, before me.


It's just Cornmeal, water and yeast

Brewed in the family still.

Them revenuers can't find the place

They probably never will.


Don't drink it down, you sip it slow

It kicks like a stubborn ole mule.

There's a reason it's called White Lightnin

Some folks call it fuel.

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Song of Pride

I sing this song of Pride

For those who have no voice.

I march this street in honor

Of those who had no choice


The Stonewall Riots, where it all began

Our fathers took to the streets.

To demand equal rights and justice

No longer will we take a back seat.


I sing this song of Pride

For Freedom and Liberty.

I march this street to honor

Those who've gone before me.


On Santa Monica Boulevard

On this cloudless, beautiful day.

My Gay brethren by the thousands

Are standing proud to say.


We sing this song of Pride

Equality is our demand.

Those closet doors been shattered

We're proud to take a stand.

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Pain of the Street

The concrete jungle is my home

This cardboard box, my shelter from the storm.

I never I thought my life would be like this

Never thought I'd deviate so far from the norm.


You avoid my gaze, you look through me

You pretend I don't exist.

My being homeless makes you uncomfortable

You swear, you would never live like this.


Food and shelter, you take them for granted

Once upon a time, so did I.

I used to have a job and a home and a family

I lost them all, once I started getting high.


My drug of choice was cocaine

A wicked taskmaster is she.

A Twisted domineering mistress

I am but a shell of the man, I used to be.


The cold hard sidewalk is unforgiving

The streets are filled with crime.

I beg like a dog, for a scrap of food

Because I don't have a dog gone dime.


I try not to look in mirrors

I don't like the image I see

I avoid my reflection in windows 

There's a pathetic, wretched old man, staring back at me.


I pray that in Gods Kingdom

There's a new home waiting for me.

One where there is no hunger

No pain, and no poverty.

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I Hope You'Ll Remember Me

To those who do not know me

I'm a husband, father, brother and son.

I accepted the call of my country

Now my race is run.


I died an angry death

Lying on foreign soil.

For my family and my country

In hope a terrorist, I might foil.


To the mother of my children

I hope you'll remember me.

As a good and loving husband

Just as I tried to be.


To my children Karen and Jacob

I hope you'll remember me.

As the dad you could always turn to.

I loved my family.


To my brother and my sister

I hope you'll remember me.

As a good and decent man

The way a brother should be.


To my mother and my father

I hope you'll remember me

As a loving, trusting son

Proud of me, I hope you'll always be.


To the Country that I served

I hope you'll remember me.

As a soldier, as an American

Who died for liberty.


Fear not your loss

For this I guarantee

I'll see you all in heaven

and I hope you'll remember me.

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President Clinton-Part Two

Oh dear lord

What will we do

If we get stuck with

President Clinton - Part two!


The people of this country

Will get what they deserve.

If they are foolish enough

to vote for HER.


A woman for President

Not a problem that I see.

But I'd vote for Lizzie Borden

Before I'd vote for that frigid Queen.


Once firmly enthroned in her Castle

The Liberal left will be in their glory

But as for the average American

We'll sure as hell be sorry!


So on this day, I say dear Lord

Give the American people some sense

Send anyone other than Hillary to Washington

And keep this wicked viper from our nest

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More Than a Word

Gay is more than just a word

It's a simply way of life.

From Fire Island to the Bay

We live, we love, we laugh in a very special way


We hurt, we grieve, we cry

We live, we love, we die

So try as you may, we won't go away

Gay is here to stay!

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Ode To Tammy Faye

Her name is Tammy Faye

She was once married to Jim.

They built a successful ministry

Till trusted friends did them in.


They spread the word, of the Lord

They ministered to those in need.

They lifted the spirts of millions

They spread the gospel seed.


Her personality, vivacious

Her talent sings to your heart.

Her style, somewhat audacious

That's what sets her apart.


My God have mercy on her contemporaries

They're liars, phonies and cheats.

May God bless Tammy Faye

She's genuine and sweet.


Thank you Tammy Faye

From all whom you have served.

May Gods love bring the healing

You so richly deserve.