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John Trainor

John Trainor

Poetry

I threw all my poems into the bin
When I was young,
I’d studied the way of the human psyche
By Freud and Jung.
I felt they would make me feel
The things they were written to heal
So the poems are gone!
 
The feelings live on!

(2013)

#Irony

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