This is my personal journey for the past 25 years, told through poetry and the sky.

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Only Mars
by Madam Snowflake


Tonight under cloud-veiled stars
only Mars
Is visible.
Glowing red
overhead,
The old warrior scoffs
“I will purify you!”

But bitter is my resistance
And anger rises from me
Like summer heat
Fueled by memory

When Saturn returned,
I was Joan of Arc.
My beauty framed on the wall
But with screaming feet
I lost all sense of ground.

Black Moon Lilith was sacrificed.

Then
Decades of digging
Gripping the spade
Blisters and splinters
Dirt mixed with blood
“If I move fast enough it won’t hurt…”

Burdened by unrefined iron
Oblivious to shadow,
“No, I can’t feel my feet.”

Wandering
As the fool
Praying with
Melodies
Played on piano keys

Only in the long expanse
Of tourmaline darkness
Did the luminescence
Of Venus appear
Reflecting silvery softness
Alongside her sister,
The moon.

Mars
Transmuted
By alchemical grace

My voice is a song
My Instrument, a wand
Music, as magic,
Transforms fiery metal
Into dawn.

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