It did not matter that he was a good person It did not matter that he was kind, caring, and empathetic His clumsy naivety, which I had once come to find charming, silly, and cute Did not seem so innocent anymore It did not matter that he was a good person for he enabled bad people It did not matter that he was kind, caring, and empathetic for he enabled those who were not His clumsy naivety, which I had once come to find charming, silly, and cute Had blinded him to their true nature And he enabled them, even though he was nothing like them And in the end he may as well have been just like them for the outcome would have been just the same And once we’ve sifted through all those scattered ashes And once we’ve picked up all those broken pieces As far as history is concerned There will be no distinction