A Portrait of the Artist as a cold man

(I'm the smudgy blob in the middle)

Another day trip to Sheffield

The graffiti in Sheffield is very impressive and so neat - I saw this on the side of Hallam University. I am not sure if anyone else has spotted it...

O travellers from somewhere else to here?Rising from Sheffield Station and Sheaf Square?To wander through the labyrinths of air,

Pause now, and let the sight of this sheer cliff?Become a priming-place which lifts you off?To speculate?What if..??What if..??What if..?

Cloud shadows drag their hands across the white;?Rain prints the sudden darkness of its weight;?Sun falls and leaves the bleaching evidence of light.

Your thoughts are like this too: as fixed as words?Set down to decorate a blank facade?And yet, as words are too, all soon transferred

To greet and understand what lies ahead -?The city where your dreaming is re-paid,?The lives which wait unseen as yet, unread.

What If..? by Andrew Motion