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 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
but i've heard the words before
it's sleeping in my memory
i won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
if i 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.


i am a rock. s&g
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i've got the island bit down. i can fake the rest until it's mastered. :)