translation

can you take an honest look at the core of our existence and say
that you have made us a better person in any single way
perhaps you think the same of us, and we could not blame you
because our difference runs on fundamentally wrong assumptions, it’s true

At the end of the day, what was once a way to live together by shared values might have been lies, although neither you nor us knew that, and therefore calling it lies would lack generosity. We were sincere, and we will imagine you were too, because the evidence does not necessarily contradict the idea, it simply shows you were not concerned by what concerned us. It would be unfair to pin the entirety of the blame on you, unfair even for us as it would depict us as helpless. We have made choices. Your part in this wasn’t to push us, to force us, but to support what was harming us, and we do not suppose that was a conscious action on your end, nor do we blame you for that either, because that realisation only comes later anyway. What we blame you for is your reaction once we face change.

words we will never forget, apologies that were never delivered and,
a situation we cannot make sense of, a disappointing end
we never switched it up and we haven’t become what you fear
unless your fear was of owning up and of responsibility, to be clear