Not Enough

My heart is cracking
Breaking ~ shattered
By the knowledge
That I can’t unknow

The enemy has captured
One of my beloved
A child of my heart
But even so
The pain is as intense
As if I’d borne her

There is no treatment
They have no cure
There is no ransom
We can pay ~ this tragedy
Has struck at random

My prayers are all I have
(And my anger)
But so often as
I give control to
My higher power
So often do I try
To wrest it back again

I have so many memories
And she has fewer every day
We will have a
Period of happiness
And then the sly face
Of her abductor
Will emerge with
Taunts and hurtful
Words and even
Sometimes with hostility

I still catch glimpses
Of the person
I will always love
But she is lost to me
As if she lived in
Another country or
A different time

And there are not enough
Tears in the world
To wash away the pain