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 never loved i never would have cried i am a rock i am an island and a rock feels no pain and an island never cries