Stephen Lawrence, a poem

Letters of outrage but

Words cannot bring him back and

Sentences can never be long enough.



Books will be written,

Television programmes made,

Documentaries and analysis on rolling news,

For a young life so needlessly lost.



Shed no tears for his loss

Nor mourn with his family,

It is done. He is gone.



Cry, instead, for a broken society, OUR broken society,

Producing bigots, nurturing their hate, fuelling their ignorance,

And harbouring them from justice for years.


Books will be written,

Television programmes made,

Documentaries and analysis on rolling news,

For a young life so needlessly lost.



Sentences can never be long enough,

Words cannot bring him back.



Robert Steadman
3rd January 2012
The day the murderers of Stephen Lawrence were eventually found guilty