The winter's dark and cold
Become spring's light and warmth.
Loneliness becomes being alone.
The snow changes to rain,
Tears of joy, because
The rocks are crumbling
The island eroding

The fortress walls are cracking.
The drawbridge lowers and
Allows love and laughter to
Enter and medicate life's pain.
Still, the rocks crumble and
The island erodes.

The loss of love makes
You think; "never again"
But the memory of the joy,
Before the tears,
Awakens you from nightmares
Of loneliness. Again
The rocks crumble and
The island erodes.

All your protections
Fade away.
The armor is removed
As you realize that
All has crumbled.
All has eroded.

That without pain
Joy is not felt
And if you never cry
Laughter is meaningless

dragonpoet