A winters 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

Dont talk of love 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 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 armour
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