THOUGHT IT WAS TIME FOR A BLOG

Starting about a year ago I decided that it was time to weed out and organize, especially my basement where I have boxes upon boxes, some of which I haven't touched since we moved into this house, ten years ago.  Yikes!!! Well, I knew there were things I wanted to keep and things, well, that needed to go. And so, it began.  Going through box after box and deciding what "needed" to be saved and what didn't.  Besides, I didn't want some health event to happen and have to move it all somewhere else and not know exactly what was in the supposed keepsake boxes.  And clothes, don't get me started on the clothes.  I went through them all the boxes and the clothes and the items decent enough to go to charity, let's just say, the charity got a lot!  I took at least 50 good sized boxes and 10 van loads there. So tonight I thought I should dedicate my latest poem to that endeavor.  Here it is:

STUFF

By Patty Lynn

I started getting organized about a year ago

Because we all accumulate, I knew much had to go.

I started with the basement & I realized, at last,

Unnecessary, much of it, just “stuff” that I’d amassed.

So I went through each box I had, each shelf, each rack of clothing

And thus began the task ahead, some fear of it and loathing...

That I had kept what seemed to me important at the time,

But actually just took up space, no reason & no rhyme.

I had my work cut out for me, purge sentimental things?

But how could I, they’re pulling at my heartstrings?

With every card and every picture drawn in childhood scrawl,

The memories came flooding back as I would thus recall…

The times when I, a fledgling Mom, was new at child rearing…

Then I'd snap back and realize I’d best get back to clearing.

As you can tell this wasn’t such an easy job for me.

I was consumed with doing this, now done, I’ve come to see…

If you throw keepsakes in a box, your memories of your past,

And they’re not organized, preserved, they’re never going to last.

Besides it’s smart to pick and choose, you can’t keep everything.

And since mine’s labeled and pared down, I can find anything!