Episode 2: Mad Girl’s Love Song
Posted in Poetry by Lauren on April 3rd, 2007
In which I recite one of my favorite poems, Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath.
Music credit: Sara’s Death by Hikaru Nanase
“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.)”
cel says:
I feel so stupid. I didn’t know this was a poem. I only know it from Fisher’s song of the same title.
and yes, i don’t know your life. hehehe
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Mia says:
Wow, beautifully haunting! Very good that you chose to whisper some lines, rather than just recite it as is. The choice of music was fitting, you could’ve made the ending more intense — but as a ghostly, maddening reading, very well done.
April 9th, 2007 at 4:30 pm