More on Tragedy

 It should not have to have been. 

It should not have to have happened.

You could have prevented, fixed, settled it if you could have known ahead of time.

The knowledge of the truth emerges with the knowledge that it is too late to do anything about it.

It had to be.

It had to happen. 

You couldn't do anything to stop it. 

You know that now.

To the Disbeliever in Reality

 Once death was admitted

               every horror was allowed

You cannot believe one moment

               this was just

               an inconsequential slip

There is no other universe

               could sustain you

               so desperately wanted

               so monstrously loved

All will be forgiven on the other side

               of the shredded curtain.