Those who delight and then depart

 Those who go about pleasing everyone,
 everyone mocks them,
 everyone dishonors them.
  
 But no one stops to think, not once,
 why they became this way today,
 when a person surrenders their very self.
  
 At life's beginning
 when someone suffers
 deprivation at the hands of others,
 becomes prey to deception,
 prey to threats,
 prey to cruelty,
 prey to rejection,
 then slowly they learn
 to negotiate with their own limitations,
 molding themselves
 to suit others' convenience and desires.
  
 This is truly heartbreaking.
 Before we speak ill of them,
 let us also look
 toward that pain.