Good People
By Loviel
Why is it that good people
Are always taken advantage of?
Are they too kind,
Too understanding,
That you feel you can treat them
As a mere rung under your boot.
Do they make you feel superior?
Because you have a harder heart
Believe you had a tougher life.
Or do they disturb your peace
With their effortless tranquility
Do they remind you of your insecurities—
Of who you wanted to be
Of the purity that was once you.
But what you fail to see—
What you are reluctant to wonder
Is that maybe they are kind to others
Because no one was to them.
Maybe their past is not as carefree
As you so desperately want it to be.
Maybe they stick around
Not because they imagine
But because they know.
Maybe they are trying to be
The exact opposite of what hurt them,
The change they wish to see.
But you won’t entertain these ideas
Because it wouldn’t justify your actions,
Wouldn’t give you a reason
To curse them angrily
When they finally decide to leave.