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 steep

And mighty

that none may penetrate

I have no need

of 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

well 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 the rock feels no pain

And an island never cries