I was doing some research on a writing project lately, and came across this poem by Sylvia Plath. How it brought me back to my school days....... I know it's not exactly the "love and hearts" type of Valentine's day themed goodness I shared the other day, but a reminder of just how it feels to be in love, or to have lost love, or to feel the madness of love.
I love the haunting melody of the poem and how it expresses the emptiness and sadness of the subject so clearly. Sigh.
Thought I would Share:
Mad Girl's Love Song
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.)”
― Sylvia Plath
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