As a fellow Marie

You inspired the

Mad Scientist in me

 

My love of physics and chemistry

The  scandalous Madame Curie

 

First woman to win, then

finding true depths of isolation

When you, and only you

Received Nobel number two.

 

You, continued on

Becoming the first female

professor of Surbonne

 

Idealistic mother-daughter bond

Your life saving Little Curies

X-rayed injuries through the

World War tragedies

 

Mother of modern physics

Laid in a bed of lead

Radioactive in the end.