Donna Ashworth

So we were suddenly in a position where we went, right, OK, what now?

And I saw it as quite a good opportunity to move on from something that might have been quite difficult to move on from.

But my husband and I ended up moving from Manchester to Scotland with no jobs and no idea of what we were quite going to do next.

And the world had turned overnight.

So everything was different and new and terrifying.

It was quite a time.

Yeah, I don't think there was anywhere else to go.

But, you know, what on earth are we going through here?

And because it was so collective, and I think any sort of collective experience, especially if it's tragic, brings forth a lot of poetry, a lot of music, a lot of, you know, war poems, for example.

There was always, you know, a massive amount of poetry came out after every war, quite rightly, because so many people died.

were grieving and so many people were lost and so much change and words are a great way to deal with that.

And the only thing that everybody had left was online, quite literally was all we were allowed to do.

So I already had a blog at that point.

And I was sharing some things online, maybe an occasional poem here and there, but not with any sort of purpose.

And then I just thought to myself, I'm going to write a little poem every day.

And that's going to save my sanity because I'm an overthinker.

And when the worst happens, the overthinker brain goes, aha, told you.

Told you these things can happen.

I told you movies can be real.

It felt so unrealistic, didn't it?