Wild Child

To Let

Fill this heart and take control.
Best he who came before
and seized my soul.

You could be the one I seek.
You could be the one to replace
he whom I wish
was far less cold.

a fragment of poetry

You paid homage to that old cardinal rule:
Want what you can't have
and spurn those who love you.

 

 

Variations on a theme

Mad Girl’s Love Song: Variations on a Theme (Inspired and drawn from Sylvia Plath’s poem)

You kissed me
and the world went spinning.
I held a breath.
You vanished.

You took me to bed,
high and elated.
I opened my eyes.
You vanished.

You promised me love
but whispered sweet nothings instead.
I saw you with her
and felt crushed and dead.

Secrets can kill remix

Lucky You (Secrets Can Kill Remix)

Listen up, darling.
I've got a secret
that shouldn't linger untold.

Life's a grand show,
and I'm not ready to fold.

Keep playing the game,
It's too early to call.
Give me a good bluff
before I throw out your stuff.

How about raising the stakes
to weed out the fakes.
Everyone's got a tell.
Yours, I know all too well.

I've got a secret
you might want to hear.
You're a handsome little liar;
I wanna set on fire.
 

a favorite poem

One poem I recently discovered and have fallen in love with is Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song":

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.)