hoarding no more

it took me

a few

extra attempts...

.

...before i could go in

and really start dealing

with the task at hand

i found all sorts

of other unnecessary

tasks i would rather be doing

finally at six am

the morning the installers were coming

i could procrastinate no more

and so i dug in

cobwebs, mess and all

into the room

we had not touched in years

after several bags of clearly trash

a few boxes for the recycle bin

i discovered some treasures

amongst the junk

last night i went to

the office

who knew

shreading could be so therapeutic

i eliminated

about twenty five years of my life

in six short hours

and some of the painful memories

 that went

along with it

simply by slicing papers and pictures

 into tiny fragments

of fiber

today i awoke with a new energy

ready to tackle the next

set of drawers

in those file cabinets