Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

Whatever I see, I swallow immediately

Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.

I am not cruel, only truthful –

The eye of a little god, four-cornered.

Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.

It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long

I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.

Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

23 October,1961

Sábado e tensões inexistentes no pré-prova

A.: Aiai,a vida é mesmo que nem um bigode.
M.C.: (interrompendo o almoço muito interessada mesmo) Ah, é? Por quê?
Fez silêncio. Mastigar interrompido. Até a Am. prestou atenção.
M.:(Com verdadeiro volume e muito inesperadamente) Porque tá sempre suja.