Pushed away: Fish

It withholds its output from the world, declining to build, contribute or extend anything into the future, and keeps intimacy off for the same reason, since both would put something of itself into circulation. Severe condemnation from before birth onward produced a conviction of being not merely inadequate but disqualified, and a person who believes the source is contaminated concludes that the product must be too. What it asks for is one small contribution released without a judgement on the maker attached to it.

Whatever I made would have my hands on it, and that's the problem.

It echoes the third servant, who took the one talent he had been given and put it in the ground, and explained afterwards that he had done it because he knew what kind of master he was dealing with. The form implies a task: to examine where the description of the master came from.