Tuesday, January 10, 2012

'Stephen Lawrence' by Carol Ann Duffy

Cold pavement indeed
the night you died,
murdered;
but the airborne drop of blood
from your wound
was a seed
your mother sewed
into hard ground –
your life's length doubled,
unlived, stilled,
till one flower, thorned,
bloomed
in her hand,
love's just blade.

2 comments:

Gerry Snape said...

fantastic.

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

And a book has been released for kids about his life to inspire teens through that medium too.
http://www.kidslikeme.co.uk/the-life-of-stephen-lawrence-i1246.html
Gosh , lots of books about him for adults on Amazon.
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