Today’s prompt, write a poem in which something is lost and then regained.
We wondered year in year out
What had become of you?
Taken as a baby
Vanished from us.
The anguish of loss
Haunted us each year
We remembered your birthday.
All attempts to find you
Fell on deaf ears and dead ends.
Then one day, thirty years later
A message, a phone call
A voice from the wilderness
Visits arranged
Nerves on edge
The lost child found.
New relationships forged
New families introduced
Suddenly we were one again.
Now we rejoice
In your discovery
For what was once lost
Has now been found.
Written for: http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/2016-april-pad-challenge-day-24
Morpethroad 
How sad to have a child stolen from a family! Very poignant poem, Michael. So glad it had a happy ending!
It’s turned out well thank you Joy, she a beautiful girl. Though in her 40s now.
Was she your own child, Michael?
No Joy the child of my ex, it all happened before we were married..
Poor lady. That must have been a terrible thing to experience. I cannot even imagine it.
It haunted her for many many years. The reunion put an end to that.
It’s wonderful that she could finally find her mother after so many years.
I can’t think of anything worse than having a child taken. What pain and torment the parents must go through. Well written–insightful.
It’s good, sometimes, to find what you have lost. In such cases, when both the birth mother and daughter wanted the reunion it is serendipitous. And so meant to be.
At the time it was a good thing…..thanks for your thoughtful comment.
Wow this was hard to read so sad and poignant
Thanks Trish not an easy one to write either…