Mad Girl's Love Song
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 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.)