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 darkness 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 enter 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).