SO HERE'S THE CORRECT VERSION WHICH EXPLAIN'S "AMBERS RUN"
THE THREE OF US WERE GOING TO SEE TENNESSEE JUST MY WIFE, OUR SIX YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AMBER AND ME FOR A MOMENT WE STOPPED IN A CONVENIENCE STORE AND AFTER THAT I DON'T REMEMBER VERY MUCH MORE
I RECALL A MAN IN SHREDDED CLOTHING AND A SHABBY HAT WHO LOOKED LONELY AND LOST AND THAT GIVING HIM A RIDE WOULD COME AT TOO HIGH A COST
WE THREE HAD LEFT ALONE BUT NOW THERE WERE FOUR AND THE STRANGER BECAME ENRAGED AND ME EVEN MORE THEN SUDDENLY THE SKY OPENED UP AND THUS RAIN BEGAN TO SLOW DOWN THE TRUCK WHILST TWO ADULTS KNEW WE WOULD ONLY SURVIVE WITH THE LORD'S LUCK
WE FOUND OURSELVES IN THE CENTER OF A WILDERNESS AND AN UNCERTAIN GAMBLE AS WE MADE OUR WAY THROUGH BRUSH, BRIAR AND BRAMBLE THE MOMENT I HAD THE CHANCE I YELLED AS LOUDLY AS I COULD " RUN AMBER RUN" AFTER THAT SLICE OF A SECOND IN SPACE AND TIME GOD'S WILL WAS BEING DONE
IF HE WOULD ONLY TELL US WHERE AND HOW FAR SHE'D GET FOR SOMEONE SO YOUNG YET MY WIFE AND I HELD ON IN THE HOPES TO WHICH WE CLUNG
THEN INSTANTLY I SAW A CHANCE AND THAT'S WHEN MY LEGS QUICKLY SPUN BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR US THE STRANGER WIELDED A GUN UNBKNOWNST TO US THE MAN SPENT THE DAY DRINKING RUM AND FELL ASLEEP HE LOOKED SEMI-CONSCIOUS OR IN A SLUMBER OIL WELL TYPE DEEP
THEREFORE SINCE I'M ABLE TO WRITE THIS YOU KNOW MY WIFE AND I GOT AWAY AND I CAN'T TAKE HEARING THE NAME "AMBER" TO THIS DAY NOW ONE YEAR LATER FOR US TWO THERE IS ONLY ANGER AND HURT BECAUSE WE WERE THE FIRST COUPLE TO ISSUE AN "AMBER ALLERT" (C) 20111...free cee!~
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Posted: Feb 2011
About this poem:
IF YOU READ THIS VERSION FIRST THEN YOU MISSED THE WHOLE POINT OF THE POETRY..IF YOU READ THIS THEN THERE'S NO NEED TO READ IT AGAIN...SORRY, MY NEIGHBOR IS RASTAFARIAN AND INVITES ME OVER ALMOST NIGHTLY TO DO WHAT RASTAFARIAN'S DO AND THE MUSIC THEY PLAY...I HAVE EVERY BOB MARLEY SONG EVER WRITTEN AND RECORDED...SOME NEVER GOT ON ALBUMS...WHY, BECAUSE THE MAN HAD MORE SOUL, AND BELIEVED IN ALL THE RIGHT THINGS.....AND HE DIDN'T FORGET THE POOR!
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