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

The corollary that if there is anything God can do that 
would reduce suffering without reducing the benefits of 
suffering he is bound to do it.  

 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

Forgive the giver

And all will be forgiven 

                on the other side

               of the shredded curtain.