What Harder Than A Woman's Empty Heart? Poem by Colin Breck Boardman

What harder than a woman's empty heart,
Once softened by a sweetheart's loving kiss?
Not the diamond glistening in part
Can cut one to the quick as sharp as this.
What colder than a woman's empty stare
Once warming us with her long loving gaze?
Not the icy blade which once did start
So bright from forging flames of fire's blaze.
What darker than a woman's fickle eye
Once only focused lovingly on you?
Not the deepest ocean, nor the midnight sky
Is more mutable or ruthless through and through.
Though our glowing hopes still rise up in the east,
Her uncaring silence is the nature of the beast.

CBB Sept 2011