I Am A Rock
Life can be tough sometimes, we go through a lot of trials and challenges that make us bitter and prompt us to shut our door to the world. Paul Simon’s I Am A Rock, is a song widely believed to bespeak bitterness, pain and isolation.
Contrary to the popular belief, though, I look at the lyrics of the song as the best survival mantra. Each stanza tells us about the shield that we should put around us, not to push away the world but to contain our wholeness, keeping in mind all the possibilities in every relationship.
Looking at the pain caused by friendship and the crying caused by love, I believe that it is only our wholeness that can help us withstand the pain and the crying at the same time prevent us to inflict them to others. A sense of wholeness that turns us into a rock that shields and an island that shelters.
Read on, move on, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL…
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.
Its laughter and its 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.
