A winter's day in a deep and dark December

I am alone

Gazing from my window to the streets below

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow



I am a rock

I am an island



I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty

That none may penetrate

I have no need for friendship, friendship causes pain

It's laughter and it's loving I disdain



I am a rock

I am an island



Don't talk of love but I've heard the word before

It's sleeping in my memory

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died

If I'd never loved I never would have cried



I am a rock

I am an island



I have my books and my poetry to protect me

I am shielded in my armor

Hiding in my room, safe within my womb

I touch no one and no one touches me



I am a rock

I am an island



And a rock feels no pain

And an island never cries