With a _Here I am!_ With an _Ecco mi!_ With a _Da bin ich!_ There you are, dearie.
But not only a triumphant awareness that _There you are_.

An exultant awareness also that outside this quiet gate, this navel, lies a whole universe on which you can lay tribute.

Aha--at birth you closed the central gate for ever.

Too dangerous to leave it open.

Too near the quick.