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    Never Knowing: Never Saw You
    Never Knowing: Never Saw You
    Never Knowing: Never Saw You
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    Never Knowing: Never Saw You

    By Valvin Lee Jeanty

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    Never Knowing / Never Saw You is a collection of poems and proverbs from the part of the mind thoughts rarely find.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherValvin Lee Jeanty
    Release dateSep 24, 2014
    ISBN9781310625237
    Never Knowing: Never Saw You
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    Valvin Lee Jeanty

    South Florida native with a semi abstract cultural view on life and the many worlds around me.

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      Never Knowing - Valvin Lee Jeanty

      SKYSHEEP

      Apples Spoil

      We don’t see eye to eye but I’m listening

      Tomorrow is for the wise is what I’m wishing

      What you’re going through is for only you

      You know not what you see me do

      I’m great but so many dreams won’t let it show

      So many talents not knowing when it’s time to go

      If ever I can clear my head for long enough

      It all will come together, it all will touch

      And I will then prove that I took heed

      Yet bear with me, the wise are without much speed

      Your guidance is never to be forgotten

      Apples spoil but the seed goes on not rotten

      Pride Of The Unloved

      Creativity fought its loss in quicksand

      My truths exploited me for who I am

      Mir-i-am, I never told a threat in my life

      Cause if I told them once, I meant them twice

      Lonely years of captivity plead the fifth

      I wonder what if I wondered what if

      Le-if, kings to you for you understand

      Although I’m not human I am a man

      Untouched it seems I am by the things I did

      Mesmerized by the sins I have not rid

      Ing-rid, I love you and forgive you

      When I see me again I’ll love me too

      I’ve only one last secret to tell

      If you knew me then you knew me well

      Lo-well, I’ve slept upon so many sins

      Tell me now brother how can I not win

      Last secret escapes as scattered thoughts erase my mind

      I went blind tracing this invisible line

      Vange-line, yesterday is never what it seemed

      I tell you little sister I thought I dreamed

      Now Sympathetic

      I

      They couldn’t understand it all the while

      But I’m flattered, envy has such a beautiful smile

      What is the time, only heaven knows

      II

      No one loved me before today

      Not once had the world a word to say

      Before now, but then You spoke my

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