it really didn’t matter

whether we were conned or not,

should we remember

what everyone else forgot?

we didn’t love bygones

and silver samovars

just to watch them disowned

you might have said:

‘perhaps,

‘you were only evil,

‘you were only bad’,

and that perhaps

might’ve explained

but we were neither:

if we stood separated

at the start

and at the end

it was because

separated we were,

at the start

and at the end