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.
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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 sreid@youngwritersproject.org.
Long before “#YOLO” reached our Twitter feeds, poets and philosophers began chewing on an immutable but easily forgotten truth: Tomorrow is not promised. This week’s featured writer, Ethan Huang of Norwich,echoes their sentiment, and advises us against allowing the forecast of the day ahead to color the present moment we are physically standing in – for we’ll only ever be stepping from that one moment into the next, and tomorrow never truly comes.
Tomorrow never truly comes
By Ethan Huang, 13, of Norwich
Tomorrow never truly comes,
the future’s dawn never rises.
The morning sun never sets,
the ash of time never falls.
Tomorrow never truly comes,
don’t put it off for now.
The put-off will stay in slumber,
then and now will never be one.
Tomorrow never truly comes,
no matter how hard it is today.
We see the pain on display
and it will never go away.
Tomorrow never truly comes,
whether good or bad —
that is not for me to say.
Tomorrow never truly comes.
Tomorrow never truly comes,
today is all that we have.
So make the most of it now, for
tomorrow never truly comes.
No matter how hard you want
it to stay away,
no matter how hard it is today,
make the most of the day.
Tomorrow never truly comes.
