and so then we say
"who is here?"

violently intriguing

yet we see with such
passive eyes

the monumentality of the slaughter
that shall soon take place

amid the loveliness

creatures
so pure and saint-like

enjoying

all sense of purposeful sharing
and the child's modesty

and as oftimes we hear eachother say:

"are we really even here-at-all?"

and the monumentality
of even thinking to speak

and yet we dare go on

unto the only door worth entering

and we go in
and take a seat