Glowing Woman
She didn't shatter the glass ceilings,
she shattered the sky
and stars fell in her lap.
They barred her from science clubs
but she built her own constellations.
She arrived in Paris hungry for knowledge
fed herself with formulas
and ambition was satiated.
They gave her frostbitten ceilings
but she warmed them with equations.
She wasn't stuck by a Cupid's arrow
she steadied the bow
and hit the right heart.
They shared notebooks and moonlight
but she lost him to a wrong deviation.
She discovered a new glowing element,
covered herself with radiation
and lit up rooms for women.
They stood up for her at the Nobel ceremony,
but misogyny rewrote the citation.
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