Ode To Plath Poem by john tiong chunghoo

so many paths
never saved plath

a multi faceted mind
that fused and
blew her very top

a thousand images
her acute mind
picked up
and worked
into her poem failed
to save her from
inadequacy

one by one
they opened
like internet sites
to reveal only
a double locked prison

damp and cold
to dispirit her of life

every poem
to soothe and
tame a bruised soul

returned again
and again to haunt
the protagonist

prison upon prison