Time Piece
Time Piece
A Lord Elgin Shock Master
14 caret gold filled, with
inscription on the back,
Safety Award to
Cyril F. Wylie, 1958
Five Years No Accident
by John Vogel, Inc.
I was 14 then, you’d been gone
two years. I knew nothing of your
life, only you left and drove trucks.
The watch was uncovered amongst old
clothes, socks, and underwear after you
died on March 29, 1979 at 2:05AM,
my 35th birthday.
When awarded, I wonder what this
watch meant to you. Did you want
me to have it?
Did this watch speak to you?
It does to me. It speaks of time
we never had.
Deep in its timing mechanism it holds
secrets, secrets about
where you were
who you were with
why you left
why you didn’t reach out to me.
Our time-piece of loss.