CATHODE RAY LIGHT

A cathode ray light
Frames her existence
A light in the ether
A sound in the silence
Like a solitary standing stone
She sits there alone

She dreamt of the night that he left her
The pain of her sobbing
The depth of her grief
Still silently loving her
And never far away

He reached out his arms
In the blackness
She was sure that a cold hand
Was touching her cheek
So hard to begin all the letting go
When you've never felt so weak

Killing cliché spits he's in a better place
This telephone suffocates
Her last remaining grace
So little comfort in the widening of space
Force-fed reminders
Pulling - pushing in her face

And the fear now swells
This awakening hell
And shrouds her everything
Bathed in blue
From the cathode tube
Absorbing everything

She can barely hear
Softened voices near
Oblivious to everything
Bathed in blue
From the cathode tube
Absorbing everything

Revolving minutes
Mangled moments in her head
Crushing, bleaching, blurring
Bleeds the triplight red
To catch the phrase that's damning
Hanging by a thread
Repeating out those ringing
Final words he said

And somewhere softly spoken voices
Slowly soaking through
The gaudy awkward predictable words
If there's anything I can do?