Scorpio

Scorpion 
of the summer night
slowly glides
from left to right
gleaming from the southern sky
above the roads
and cars and houses
down below.

his heart is a star -
Antares! - bright and red
his stinger just for show
he's a shining softy
don't you know
keeping watch
through the dark of night
 
it's winter now
he's far away
but the scorpion returns
come the longest day
Now Orion's striding
across the sky
our giant friend
come the longest night.