To the memory of Stephen Lawrence
and 22 April 1993, when he was murdered
in Eltham, Southeast London,
by five men who have gone unpunished
by the British judicial system to this day
If thou art indeed my father,
then thou hast stained thy sword
in the lifeblood of thy son.
And thou didst it of thine own obstinacy.
For I sought to turn thee into love…
– from the Shahnameh