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Thanks to UK Northern Rail for allowing us to show this video depicting poet laureate Simon Armitage’s poem, All Right?
This time of year can be a particularly lonely time. If you’re worried about someone, don’t forget to ask them if they are all right. It can make all the difference.
Video of the poem “All Right” by Simon Armitage, read by Mark Addy
© Northern Railway
All Right?
It was all winter
no clouds, no leaves
the sky was all sky
It was all frost
and all the best stars were mirror ball bright.
Then I noticed this guy on the bridge
this one solitary guy
With a 10 yard, 20 yard, 50 yard stare in his eye
Looking onto the tracks
looking straight down the line
I’ve never been one for meddling
I don’t like to pry
but I wandered across
and heard myself saying
“All right?”
A train went past
… so whatever he said in reply
got atomised
Then he spun on his heels
and veered off into the night
and I slept all the better
for not just passing him by.
Come spring
Come shine
the station buttered with warm light
I saw him again
on the edge of platform 9 9 9
But he nodded and smiled
and silently mouthed,
“All right”
then jumped on a train and rode away into his life.
Simon Armitage