Ransom

The wife just got home after a long day          
And found a random note on the door          
She went inside and put her stuff away          
Then she read it and fell to the floor          
Silent screams the silence they shattered          
Gasping trying to regain her composure          
A thousand thoughts entirely scattered            
Fingerprints bloodied the letters enclosure            
           
"Your husband is being held hostage          
And if you contact the authorities            
I will torture him while he's in bondage          
And he will suffer major deformities            
Six hundred thousand must be paid          
Tonight you will be contacted by phone          
His safety for your money we'll trade          
Or you'll be widowed and all alone"          
           
The wife with no way to cover this amount          
Called some relatives in her state of panic          
She figured if she can get half the count          
She can negotiate and work some magic          
She anxiously awaited the pending call          
As she secured some of the cash needed          
Despite her marriages rises and falls          
She couldn't bare her husbands life deleted          
           
Time at this moment stood sickenly still          
She was pacing waiting for the phone to ring          
When it finally rang it sent a haunting chill            
When she was told the location where to bring          
The money all placed in a black duffel bag          
To be left at a very specific place and time          
She stated she experienced a little snag          
Only 300 thousand, the disguised voice said fine          
So she went to where she was instructed          
And placed the duffel bag on the ground          
Then she went back home as she trusted          
Her husbands return after he was unbound            
And she waited and waited but to no avail          
With hope waning painful desperation lingered          
Finally three days later she received in the mail          
A package arrived of his cut off ring finger          
With the finger and ring there was also a note          
She started to read so she could understand            
Recognizing the handwriting in which it was wrote She realized the purpose of the ransom demand   "I thought about death and ending my life          
Ever since I caught you cheating on me          
But this was a better way to leave you wife          
A going away present to haunt your memory          
           
Thank you for the money, I'll be quite fine            
Now that the weight of the world is lifted            
Ending the nightmares of you crossing the line          
And when your morals and values shifted          
It will give me a fresh start, a new beginning            
Most importantly an opportunity and chance          
To close the chapter of our unhappy ending          
And actually find real love and true romance"