I am vertical

Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf.
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Atracting my share of Ahs and spectecularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal. 
Compared with me, a tree is immortal 
And a flower-heat not tall, but more startling.

Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,
The trees and flowers have been strewing their cool odours.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing. 
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them - 
Thoughts gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.