Scorpius

Heat licking sweat from my collarbone

Night shading my physique

Every step feels watched

Like the dark wants in

I’ve starved my hunger in public

Fed it secrets instead

Every desire I buried

Learned how to live in my head

The desert doesn’t judge the craving

It only asks what you’ll risk

I didn’t come here to be cleansed

I came to be marked, not kissed

In the desert I met the scorpion

Low and coiled in the sand

Eyes like a promise you shouldn’t keep

Still dying to understand

He said "Power is intimate"

It enters slow, then it stings

You don’t seduce the darkness

You let it crawl under your skin

His shadow climbed up the horizon

Tail carving signs in the night

Every fear I’d been hiding

Started begging for sight

He said "Desire is a weapon"

If you learn how to wait

Let them come close enough trembling

Then decide their fate

I’ve worn control like a warning

Let it linger, let it ache

They mistake my silence for mercy

That’s their first mistake

In the desert I met the scorpion

Venom thick in the air

He said "They’ll feel you before you touch them"

Before you’re even there

Said "You don’t chase what you want"

You let it circle, then cling

You don’t beg for devotion

You command it with the sting

He marked me slow — ceremonial

A verdict written in fire

Venom rewriting my bloodstream

Turning instinct to empire

I saw eyes pull toward me

Like gravity learning my name

That’s the law of the scorpion

Desire disciplined by pain

Let them think it’s mutual

Let them think it’s their idea

Now I wear temptation like armor

Every glance gets caught

I don’t need touch to undo them

I undo them with thought

From the heat of the wasteland

To the stars that all see

I rise etched in obsession

I am great— Scorpius

Scorpius!

Low breath

Sharp sting

Slow smile

Game over

I am great— SCORPIUS