Donna Ashworth

Like we were watching a film.

And so you can spiral very quickly.

So I thought this will keep me sane.

It will help me and maybe it'll help other people.

And it just went from there.

Well, I just wrote that poem as I do all my poems.

It just went out on social media.

I didn't think it was for the NHS or anything like that until it started to be used by doctors.

It started in America.

Doctors were using it and schools were using it and they were all taking a line each and making it a bit of an anthem almost.

Then it came to the UK and then it was picked up by celebrities who were reading lines in schools.

You're seeing this on your social media?

I didn't know about it either.

until I was tagged in it and you're like oh you don't even know quite and Amnesty International wrote to me and said please can we send this poem out to all of our subscribers across the world and that was when I thought okay maybe I could

Maybe occasionally for someone's wedding.

So I was a songwriter in my youth, but I never quite made it.

Well, I didn't make it.

I don't know why I say quite made it.

Maybe.

It was a tough climb back then.