Analysis Of La Douleur Exquise

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La Douleur Exquise
La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
A very long time ago when the Earth was still the point at the center of the universe and humans lived in a more ambiguous manner, there was a god, shunned from his golden home and family in the sky. A god who was forced to watch over the lost souls of mortal men as they flowed down the river Styx, washed away of their former glory and power, humbled by death in a way that they never could be in life. The god sat amid his wealth and destruction and loneliness, bitterness was the only companion for king on his melancholy throne.
It was a fine day in the meadows outside of Sozopolis when the king of death first saw her. A goddess opposite …show more content…

For the love he felt for life became less vibrant than the love he would feel for her. Though wilted, the goddess put up her fight, whispered words that seemed wrong on her plush, innocent lips. She was a force to be reckoned with, and despite her lack of life, she still brought something whole to his throne of melancholy.
Love makes you want someone to be happy, it makes you want to be selfless and good and serving. It’s an obnoxious feeling, the god would soon learn. He wanted to make her golden, he wanted to make her laugh and sing and bring forth the riches of the Earth again. And so, with a heavy heart he let her go. Released her as if she were a firefly he’d been keeping. He let her go so she would not have to live with him in his suffering.
The goddess went back to her world up above, and she tried to become one with her element once more, yet her heart, oh her fickle little heart, yearned illogically and painfully for the cold man she had lived with in captivity. As the sunshine warmed her skin and the earth squashed under her and the sweet nectar of the holy rain fell on her tongue and her soul was returned to the fertile land she so carefully had cultivated at the beginning of Earth and the age of man, her heart became frigid. Her eyes became hard, her tongue once golden and fluid became silver and sharp. The heart yearns in a way that any mortal or immortal man finds peculiar, for the heart loves sometimes without …show more content…

The six seeds would keep her alive and vibrant with the force of the warrior’s might for six months. Six months she could live under the Earth with him, she could hold and cherish him, he could live for six months. Six months she could be his Queen, his lover, his wife.
There were six seeds he did not feed her, for the six months she would leave him to make the Earth bloom and the sky warm with her spirit. And after those months in the sun, after the time making the land of Greece prosper with her green hands, she would come back to him, always come back to his halls echoing of death and melancholy. In her absence, the sky would turn colder and grey and the world would experience a time of winter.
It was in her absence that the god of death would be lonely and in pain, but that was always a feeling quickly abandoned when she came home, when he could have her for his time. And so, the god who was shunned from his golden home and family in the sky, found himself sitting on a throne of light and

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