Preamble: my little effort for #napowrimo Day 10, inspired by the prompt "bloodstone" from @Fallspoetry on Instagram.

Too impatient for emerald or even diamond

I came to claim bloodstone as my own

 

Entering via Aries

Heated veins are my weakness

 

Yet I have not spilled blood

Only shared it

 

Thus I am a footsoldier

Of the Mother Goddess

 

And if my robes are stained red

It was mine to give