The flower, referred to as a female, represents life's good which is fragile and transient. High divorce rates! The sheep eat flowers. Rahim Khan from the book The Kite Runner said in relation to his forbidden love of a girl said, "In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things." His love which was his flower was destroyed by a socialized class belief system. The members of this particular belief system are the sheep in his part of the world and time. Likewise, even in modern day metropolitan cities, we possess many belief systems that feed the sheep and lead to the destruction of the beauty in life.
Our place in this world as individuals are not merely to understand or accept this. We are to change this so future generations may possess a choice to express life as their soul demands. Let the heart lead you by never seeing age, class or money. Accept the choices of others without judging them. Individuals actions create change. If we are to reincarnate into this world would we not want to be in a better one which we left behind?