Sylvia Plath

I read an article
about a study that said
most geniuses are often mad
or clinically depressed
or manic.

Like Sylvia Plath
or Van Gogh
or Jack Kerouac
or John Nash.

And in these fits of mania,
these upswings of creativity
before the suicidal downfall,
blossoms their best work
that they become known for.

As I read that
I thought
that perhaps
I could be the same way…
Give in to the madness
and burn out
after being my brightest
not fade away
into nothingness.

That perhaps,
some people are not meant to be seen in life
but remembered in death.