Simple

        Simple

 

The older I become the more my life contracts

Clutter used to become me but no more

I find I have items from my father’s workbench

He kept them in shrink wrap, purchased from some yard sale

Now they are still protected by that same wrap

Even though he has now passed by 40 years

I have things that I do not even know what they do

I know not what they are for but I have kept them safe

Just in case needed for that special project

You know the one that comes once in a lifetime

And you have found out you just threw away that particular item

I have drawers, doors, cabinets and pegboards

All filled, brimming, over running their boundaries

Pegs get longer to add more items, not the other way round

I have spent good money to build new cabinets

Just to hold these treasures of which I have no particular need

Lord, I even have three separate items to hang a clothesline!

I can’t remember the last time I saw a clothesline?

I have bolts, nuts, washers by the canister, picture hooks

God I have been recycling the same paint thinner for multiple years

I have hoses’, belts, sprinkler items, timers and much more

All useless to me but too good to dispose of

I have bike racks , no bikes, thirty visors all filthy

For gardening but only one head.

I have an air conditioner all well and fine

But my windows  crank out so more space to take

Boxes of golf balls captured while being a ranger

Sit next to the burner waiting for that estate sale

I say estate sale simply because

A yard sale I know would find me unable to release

Bids of fifty cents, offensive to me

Worth ten times more so I will continue to store

That just the basement, upstairs much more

Drawers of cutlery never seen since stored

Tapes made from records but no way to play them

Closet full of golf clubs that haven’t seen daylight in years

Sixty thousand tiny Christmas lights, my God!

Dickens village purchased on a whim

Haven’t brought it from the attic in a decade or more

Typewriter, old printers even a tv antenna, old torn up golf bag

Broken chess games, even trivial pursuit

Time to release, let go , spin off, donate but wait!

I just might need that and wouldn’t that be my fate

To hold on to so long just to have thrown it away

Author's Note

Looking around am just overwhelmed by stuff. I know I am not alone!