Personification

A winter's day

In the riddens of

The Highstorm,

I am alone,

Gazing from my window to the streets below

I can see the gems begin to glow.

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.

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 work

And my swordplay to protect me,

I am shielded in my armor,

Hiding out on Roshar, 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.