Existential yearning...

To wake up in the morning, trying to keep the sun out not realising that the sun is unrelenting as unrelenting as time. The flower wants to crumble in the summer, the stalks which hold the flower, hold on to it, keep it from un-withering, keeping it afloat in the middle of their own design, a design they do not understand yet they carry on.

Such is the bitter sweet restraint of nature, it makes the flowers yearn to wither not realising that there is a greater design and it's a bit of the whole.

"So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays." - Homer

Refrain

A word has a multitude of meanings, however, the word in a context can change from it's original meaning to the meaning that context offers.
One such word, Refrain, it means to 'stop oneself from doing something'. The effects of a 'refrain' are everlasting, sudden, impactful, deep, shattering and depressive!

A child refrained from playing in the rains, his state of joy is crushed, it's trampled with a brutal insensitivity and he's left scarred. A refrain that should have been un-refrained! How he longs to go back in that moment and play in 'jocund company of rains'.

An old woman is refrained from entering her own house by her old man. She is left paralysed with shock, dejection, despair, loneliness and a sense of loss. Her 'refrain' leaves her with no choice but to accept the stern, deceptive emotion of happiness, security that she felt for the 'ephemeral' time!

I am more misery than I ever wanted to show,
And I understand when you turn away and go,
Oh life, Oh time,
the gritty grain of the same old verse,
leaving memories in an iambic metered hearse...

- Anonymous
 (is anything really that)