Close-up of water droplets falling into a blue surface, creating circular ripples and splashes around the point of impact.
“A Ripple in Time” by Lauren McCabe.

Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org; (802) 324-9538.

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Is Time a Concept?

Elianna Venables Vogel, 14, Ferrisburgh

If yesterday

was today 

and today was tomorrow,

but tomorrow, 

today will be yesterday

and tomorrow will be today,

and now 

is later,

and later could be now,

and earlier 

was once now,

what does it mean

to live in the now?