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Young Writers Project, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power, and to gain confidence and skills for school, the workplace and life. Each week, VTDigger features a writing submission – an essay, poem, fiction or nonfiction – accompanied by a photo or illustration from Young Writers Project. YWP publishes about 1,000 students’ work each year here, in newspapers across Vermont, on Vermont Public Radio and in YWP’s monthly digital magazine, The Voice. Since 2006, it has offered young people a place to write, share their photos, art, audio and video, and to explore and connect online at youngwritersproject.org. For more information, please contact Susan Reid at [email protected].

Photo by Lauren McCabe/YWP Media Library

For all the discord America has endured these past months, throughout both the COVID-19 pandemic and rapidly rising social unrest, it’s important to laud the heroes who have effected our continual movement toward progress. Essex-based poet Paige Dubuque, featured this week, wishes for us to open our eyes – as her title expresses – to the sunlight still shining down on us, lighting our path forward.

Open your eyes…

By Paige Dubuque, 16, Essex

Open your eyes and see what is good, 
what people have done just because they could.
In a time of chaos and sickness and fear, 
there are some who remind us they are always here.
Think of the nurses who are working so hard,
they help and they heal the folks who are scarred.
There are businesses donating the supplies that they can,
compassionate people lending a hand.
The media focuses on all that is bad,
but what if they talked about what makes people glad?
The flowers are blooming, the sunshine is bright,
and I think this world will be alright.
Good deeds are everywhere, and they aren’t in disguise –
all you must do is open your eyes.

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