TELL ME WHY

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 Three shrubs are planted
 Receive equal attention
 Fertilized, sun and water
 Still they grow differently
  
 One wonders why
 Just a mystery of nature
 Or some unknown influence
 Will we ever know?
  
 Three brothers 
 Close in age
 Raised together
 Sharing the same accommodations
  
 Each grow
 Uniquely different, but
 With many similarities
  
 What causes this?
 Personal trials, tribulations
 And experience as well as
 Preparation and opportunity
 Courage and effort
  
 Shrub differentiation 
 Is more difficult to understand
 Components of growth seem equal
 Outcomes, as in real life,
 Vary immensely 
  
 Stanski
 October 9, 2019