“Country Roads,” by Amelia Van Driesche, 18, of BurlingtonYoung 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 [email protected]; (802) 324-9538. True love in its purest form necessitates the acceptance of another’s most glaring flaws and most peculiar idiosyncrasies, both; in fact, it’s often with the acknowledgment of a partner’s quirks and mistakes that affection experiences its speediest growth spurt. This week’s featured poet, Will Helms of Hardwick, identifies the vulnerability inherent in any close relationship, and consciously chooses to see the quiet beauty in tears and small moments.Where light touches youWill Helms, 15, HardwickWhere light touches you, I see every little crack in your lips, and every tiny hair on the side of your face. I see every single cell of skin, and the empty space between them: the cracks that you seep through. I see the columns of shadow along your eyelids cast by your lashes, and where tears slide down your temples and into your hair, I see the little, shining copies,the little, crystal streaks.Where light touches you,you are set not in shadowbut in gold.Read the story on VTDigger here: Young Writers Project: ‘Where light touches you’.