Mad Girl’s Love Song
By Sylvia Plath
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
Slms. very cool poem. you seen that Movie “Sylvia”? about Sylvia Plath? a bit sad she ended up killing herself.
Although… she wrote her best stuff when she was in her darkest days.
M.
I’ve read her journals, and began to see nuances of myself in her writing, the way she related to things. I wasn’t afraid.
Plath, possessed,lost soul
heart filled with sorrow, sadness
lungs filled with stove gas