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,
 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;