"Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath

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.)"

Happy Valentine's Day!

To all the imaginary worlds.

To unrequited and reciprocated love.

To the incomparable love of friendship.

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/08/top-10-love-poems-valentines-day-meena-kandasamy-the-book-of-desire

El País (the finding of this article is courtesy of Belén T): Silvia Plath Liberada de su Propio Mito;"  https://elpais.com/noticias/sylvia-plath/

"Sylvia Plath's famous collection Ariel is far darker than she envisaged" (the finding of this article is courtesy of María José Montes). Click here to access this article.