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Ode to melancholy - Coggle Diagram

- - - - When a melancholy mood strikes you—like a sudden thunderstorm that makes the sky weep, pounds down on the flowers, and covers all the greenery with an April fog
- - - - Even if you're really sad, absolutely do not drink from the waters of the Lethe river, which would make you lose your memory, and don't pull wolf's-bane plants from the ground in order to poison yourself or dull your pain.
- - - - Your mournful Psyche,
        
        Don't make a rosary bead necklace from poisonous yew-berries, and don't become obsessed with symbols of death and decay like beetles or death-moths.
- - - - Doing any of the above will bring too much darkness, and just numb you to your pain.
- - - - Or on the wealth of globed peonies;
        
        then feed your pain by gazing upon a rose that blooms only in the morning, or the rainbows over the sea, or bounteous peony flowers.
- - - - And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.
        
        Or if your lover is really angry, just hold her soft hand and let her express that anger while you gaze deeply into her beautiful eyes.
- - - - It exists within Pleasure, which is already turning to poison even as the bee sips its nectar.
- - - - Indeed, melancholy is contained within all of life's good things, like a queen dwelling, partially hidden, within a temple.
- - - - She can only be seen by those who fully embrace joy and beauty—who pop the metaphorical fruit of joy into their discerning mouths.
- - - - The person who does so will taste Melancholy's sad power, and his soul will be kept by her as a symbol of her inevitable victory.