this is heart wrenching because it is so untrue, but the boy may become a man and never realize that sometimes parents are just a-holes! i am reminded of a poem by one of my favorite poets, Theodore Roethke
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43330/my-papas-waltz ↗️
Whoa! You truly captured the feeling! Intense image.I like how those bare trees in the fog up ahead touch & seem to intersect. I guess one has to follow the path and simply go through it to realize they are loved and are love. Reflections, literally and figuratively.