Saturday 7 January 2012

Carol Ann Duffy's poem following the murder convictions

Stephen Lawrence


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.


Carol Ann Duffy 2012

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