Growth

Note: This isn't water on the tree stump, this is sap.

Pt. 1

In a moment of pulsing adrenaline, he quickened his pace. "If I only knew, if I only knew the damn truth I wouldn't be in this predicament!", He thought before leaving the curb onto the pavement. "If I knew, I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't be in this state tied down by obligation with a lost sense of aspirations". He asserts his dubious thoughts and how his good intentions led to a life of ambiguity. It was a mere utterance that brought him here, staring at the trees in the park as if they embodied a deeper wisdom that he could gather by simply concentrating.  Today he heard a few simple words that brought his world crashing to a sudden collision of chaos and bewilderment.

If he only knew now...

what these trees have always know; a hard exterior does not prevent invasion.