I am Orion.
    I have known you longer
    than you've known me.
         I saw your desert fires burning
         in the hills east of Galilee,
         when you turned your eyes skyward
         and finally found Me.
I am Orion.
    I once lived upon your land.
    I swam across the oceans,
    in the fields I was a hunter so grand.
    So many adventures I had at that time,
         I danced with Diana
         till I was wounded and blind.
         I wandered east into the rising sun's glare.
         I screamed to old Helios,
         I screamed a dare.
         Into his rising I gazed with a stare.
              I challenged the Gods
              for I knew that I could.
              But in my triumph on the Scorpion I stood.
              So I was banished above to the sky.
              For living too fully?
              I still wonder why.
I am Orion.
    The bully, the brawny, the bragging one.
    My right shoulder laughs at
    your little yellow sun.
    I've got a knife. I've got a club.
    I've got a shield that drips the lion's blood.
         I'm heading west now
         with my own charioteer,
         I have my two dogs
         and I'm traveling with no fear.
         No raging bull's gonna stop me,
         I've got a thousand fires in my heart
         and I'm down on my knees.
         If it's the last thing I do
         I will catch those Pleiades.
I am Orion.
    I rise in the east
         when the cold winds blow.
    At the end of your feast
         see my belt stars aglow.
    I am a constellation
         traveling the sky so true.
         Look, I'm home to red stars and blue,
         and the wondrous nebula M-42.
         I hide the Horse's Head
         and wouldn't you like to see,
         all the Mysteries inside of Me.
    I wish, I wish
         you could see the view from here.
         My telescope has a focal length
         of one entire light year.
         I can see everything so very clear:
              I saw your Ancient Ones
              Arrive and Disappear,
              scattered like dust across
              your shiny blue sphere.
                  I see you still
                  with your Pomp and Circumstance,

                  as I behold your journey
                  through Life's Great Dance.
I am Orion.
    I have known you longer
    Than you've known me.