I thought that I could not be hurt; I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering- immune to pain or agony.
My world was warm with April sun my thoughts were spangled green and gold; my soul filled up with joy, yet felt the sharp, sweet pain that only joy can hold.
My spirit soared above the gulls that, swooping breathlessly so high o'erhead, now seem to to brush their whir- ring wings against the blue roof of the sky.
(How frail the human heart must be- a throbbing pulse, a trembling thing- a fragile, shining instrument of crystal, which can either weep, or sing.)
Then, suddenly my world turned gray, and darkness wiped aside my joy. A dull and aching void was left where careless hands had reached out to destroy
my silver web of happiness. The hands then stopped in wonderment, for, loving me, they wept to see the tattered ruins of my firma- ment
(How frail the human heart must be- a mirrored pool of thought. So deep and tremulous an instrument of glass that it can either sing, or weep). Sylvia Plath
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Boah wie ich das nicht sehn kann. Mit deinen übertrieben tiefen Schnitten -.-
I thought that I could not be hurt
I thought that I could not be hurt;
I thought that I must surely be
impervious to suffering-
immune to pain
or agony.
My world was warm with April sun
my thoughts were spangled green and gold;
my soul filled up with joy, yet
felt the sharp, sweet pain that only joy
can hold.
My spirit soared above the gulls
that, swooping breathlessly so high
o'erhead, now seem to to brush their whir-
ring wings against the blue roof of
the sky.
(How frail the human heart must be-
a throbbing pulse, a trembling thing-
a fragile, shining instrument
of crystal, which can either weep,
or sing.)
Then, suddenly my world turned gray,
and darkness wiped aside my joy.
A dull and aching void was left
where careless hands had reached out to
destroy
my silver web of happiness.
The hands then stopped in wonderment,
for, loving me, they wept to see
the tattered ruins of my firma-
ment
(How frail the human heart must be-
a mirrored pool of thought. So deep
and tremulous an instrument
of glass that it can either sing,
or weep).
Sylvia Plath
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