EPTShe has fragments of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mad Girl’s Love Song” on her body and I remember when I first met her seeing the words flash for just a moment in a curved line beneath her belly button. I didn’t know the poem then, but Googled the line and found the text. She was already beautiful to me, but having this poem on her body intrigued me even more. I can honestly say that without the interest seeing that line for the briefest of moments created, we might not have ever ended up together.
Going back and reading the poem makes me chuckle since even before I truly knew her the text of the poem introduced her and her fiery, passion and craziness quite well.
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.)"
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