A winter's day In a deep and dark December; I alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island.
I've built walls, A fortress deep and That none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain. laughter and it's loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an
Don't talk of love, But I've heard the before; It's sleeping in my memory. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never have cried. I am a rock, I am island.
I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, 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 rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.