I AM A ROCK 
 
 
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  A winter's day, in a deep and dark december; 
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  I am alone, gazing from my window to the streets below 
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  On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. 
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  I Am A Rock, I am an island. 
 
 
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  I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty, 
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  that none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; 
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  friendship causes pain. It's laughter and it's loving I disdain. 
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  I Am A Rock, I am an island. 
 
 
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  Don't talk of love, but I've heard the words before; 
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  it's sleeping in my memory. I won't disturb the slumber 
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  of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried. 
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  I Am A Rock, I am an island. 
 
 
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  I have my books, and my poetry to protect me; 
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  I am shielded  in my armor, hiding in my room, save within my womb. 
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  I touch no one and no one touches me. 
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  I Am A Rock, I am an island. 
 
 
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  And a rock feels no pain; 
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  And an island never cries!