Torn Poem by William Kofoed

You must go

For them to save



Go away

Do not return



They were angry

They were mad



You must return

Try again



We don't believe

Never come back



They told me

Never come back



They are wrong

They must be saved





So I stood

At the driveway's end

A pawn within

A power play

Two people

Using me

I am here

I have returned

Yet I will not

Trouble them

Two people

Will get

My answer

This

I did go there

They did not change

But a child

I did learn

To hate

This task

And hate

Will burn