A Mad Girl's Lovesong 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.)

passing you bye

Pouring into my brain like wine, I'm intoxicated with memories of you..
And me. 
And your name is jagged against the roof of my mouth and tears it like wet tissue to the touch.

And I know that you still love me. I know that you still watch me with those deep dark lovely eyes. Increasing in size as they penetrate more deeply into my soul. 
You watch the way walk, talk and do things with great interest. You extract my fibers quickly, with great eagerness, each time that I pass - 
this sheet of glacier, cold and unaffected.

You blame this on him. 
On anyone but yourself, you claim. 
Its theft, you say. 
The price you've paid. For
The sword embedded in my beating muscle. 

At once, the tiny, swiftly moving ants of your broken ant farm swarm my body until
I am pure blackness. 
Until I am the color you wish to paint me.
You hate me. 
You wish to break me. 
You want nothing more than to erase me.

But these razor-sharp claws of pride. 
Are all I need to pass you bye.

And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped and I was in the darkness
So darkness I became

I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
So I stayed in the darkness with you