Seiko Lassale, May 2021

A Seiko Lassale

A gift from the maker

Passed to a grandson

From his paternal grandfather

A watch maker himself

A skill that in history

kept him alive

amongst concentrated misery

A legacy of time

More than hands and a face

But a reminder of life

of its gift

of its grace

And although circumstance

And a moment of greed

Stole the Seiko Lassale

from the grandson’s safe keep

The gift of the memory

of his grandfather’s trust

can never be taken

from a heart

full of love