Sarah Kay
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They all want to know.
What now?
I imagine it like a beach.
There is a magnificent sandcastle that has taken years to build.
A row of pink seashells for gables, rooms of pebbles and driftwood.
This is your life.
Then comes the affair.
Nagging blood work.
A freeway pileup.
The tide moves in.
The water eats your work like a drove of wild birds.
There is debris.
A tatter of seagrass and blood from where you scratched your own arm trying to fight the current.
It might not happen for a long time.
But one day, you run your fingers through the sand again, scoop a fistful out, and pat it into a new floor.
You can believe in anything, so why not believe this will last?
The seashell rafter like eyes in the gloaming,
I'm here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in.
I'm here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined.
So make it beautiful.