Impatience

And that tap tap tapping
Of nails against the desk
Echoes your impatience through
The wide spread walls of an empty room.

As though something could be done
To speed up time
Like your tapping will cause
Someone to realize your importance
And cut you through
To the front of the line

But you are equal
At this moment
To everyone else in this line

A straight class balancing act

In line you are better than no one

So tap your fingers as you might

You are last

You will remain last

Until another - equal - joins the end.

12/22/2014
Riley Welch

One More

Some people are half glasses of water
Now, they can be optimistic
It is their choosing
But you

You are a full to the brim
Overflowing,
Splashing the ground below the cup
Refreshing, cool, pure
Sweet, lovely, full

Like you have too much good within you it cant be contained in such a small frame.

And so you must share it
Along, passed, given away
And this good is beautiful

Just like you.

12/22/2014
Riley Welch

Brief

Emotions are wet

They are sticky and messy

And they don't stay and

They smear themselves down the side of your face

And they run their fingertips along your brain

And they leave you dripping

Messy

Wet sloshed tears running sticky with mucus and dancing down muddled puddles resting at the tip of your nose and chin

Grimy sweat wading along creases in skin

And pooling in damp wrecked habitats

Feeling too much

All at once. 

Emotionless means dry. 

Means very clean cut. 

Means no movement. 

Means no mess. 

Means in the moment there will be no immediate pain or discomfort. 

Because everything will be very neat, 

Very straight. 

Very right. 

Maybe not interesting. 

Or unique. 

But it won't be muddled.

And it won't be messy.

12/23/2014

Riley Welch

Favorite Fridays

The Loser

BY: SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Mama said I'd lose my head
if it wasn't fastened on.
Today I guess it wasn't
'cause while playing with my cousin
it fell off and rolled away
and now it's gone.

And I can't look for it
'cause my eyes are in it,
and I can't call to it
'cause my mouth is on it
(couldn't hear me anyway
'cause my ears are on it),
can't even think about it
'cause my brain is in it.
So I guess I'll sit down
on this rock
and rest for just a minute...

TBird

I've got this thin layer of cellophane

Stretched across my vision. 

Not skewing what I see 

But giving a veil between me and reality.

Like everything I touch sticks with a thin film. 

And I can't necessarily discern what is real. 

Ever trusting and believing. 

Without doubt - never fleeting. 

And if this veil will ever lift. 

I'll feel wide awake.

But today is not that day 

So I'll stay hidden under this thin meshed curtain

Drawing tight the corners of reality

Around all I encounter.
Eagerly.

12/21/2014
Riley Welch

(Thoughts of the day)

And I feel so much lighter. 

I laugh so much faster,

Easier. 

I look for light in everything. 

To counteract

Heavy thoughts. 

But maybe my thoughts aren't so heavy anymore. 

Maybe they lost their weight. 

And with that some worth. 

And that is okay with me. 

12/15/2014

Riley Welch 

Lack of Lighting

A black and white dark wash over a room

Removes color

And makes it dry

And void

And gray dust settles over all the surfaces 

Painting it fair shades

Many

Many

Many

So no one can tell

What is what. 

Within the gray. 

Of the dimly lit room. 

12/19/2014

Riley Welch