Secret Fates Version 11:
The Door to my Heart
Photoshop Manipulation by The Real Cie
Love is always a lie, but you're no liar
You said you loved me
You set my world on fire
I've never been a winner, only a trier
You asked me to give it a try with you
Love is always a lie, but you're no liar
Once bitten twice shy, but I'm even shyer
You said I was just what you needed
You set my world on fire
I've always been the rebel and defier
I defied my own rules to be with you
Love is always a lie, but you're no liar
Did you have any notion of what loving me would require?
I have no ability to trust although I love you so much
You set my world on fire
It's still burning
For
Gem from Cie
and
Gerry from Pepper
Notes:
Today the assignment was to take a Sylvia Plath poem and write a response to it. My favorite has always been Mad Girl's Love Song. Sadly, I have been able to resonate all too well with this poem in my life. Love has not been kind to me.
Here is the original.
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.)"
