Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 82

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Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 82

He goes to Gabriel ”I don’t get it, i…i … i gave them all my portions, the doses of lust, the sparkle of love, even Jesus’s heart shaped love i gave them…why…why are they not rolling in sheets and screaming in ecstasy?Why aren’t they doing all what men do in love,…why..” He stutters confused ” i did the spells right, or did i not get the formula right? Did i put it to the arrows wrongly…did i over do it ..or….i ..i do not understand why…why…this should have worked” He speaks to himself

” It should have worked , it ought to work. It has to work but…it..did not work and i.. i am…i do not understand it” He is pacing up and down, staring inside his bag, looking at the bowl, staring at the sleeping couple below and then back at Gabriel shaking his head in wonderment …” I do not get it, do i do it again and pour it directly into their ,mouths or…what? ” He kept pacing and then grabs the bowl, fishing into his bag ”I do not have any more spices and portions to create another formula, ..but i can go down there and ask them to love themselves yes, yes i would. I am Cupid..i will command them to love and it would work…you know what they say about me, how men define me? ..they say i am the god of desire, e----c love, attraction and affection.

And when they want to be dramatic they say ” He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the war god Mars. He is also known in Latin as Amor (“Love”). His Greek counterpart is Eros”

He laughed ”So you see Gabriel, i have not been using my full potential, I just have to see what i did wrong here first and..and– go down there and command them and they would love..yes, yes that is what i would do” He was ranting.

”Cupid!!” Gabriel grabs his shoulders and stares down at him ” Do you not see?”
”See what? That it didn’t work because i did a wrong formula? Or that i should just got down and give them some Cupid whooping and-!!”

Gabriel shakes his head ”Do you not see anything else?”

”No, it does not make sense that is all i see, they are asleep, they should be loving…it didn’t work…i don’t understand why..that’s what i see-” Cupid is yabbing away.
”He does not see Gabriel!”’ A voice says behind them. Gabriel drops his hands and steps away , facing Cupid whose eyes stares behind him to see who had spoken.

”What don’t i see?” Cupid asks in confusion

”That you cannot play God in people’s lives” the voice says coming closer
”Says the man who is God!” Cupid says lowering his eyes as the voice comes even closer

”Yes, and then see what happen? Take a walk with me as i show you what you have refused to see all along”

”You want to show me while he is standing there, beside you?” Cupid says sarcastically pointing at the Man behind Gabriel.

He could fill him smiling ”He was with me before the beginning of time Cupid, your thought and reservations won’t change that but..he would speak only when necessary, come Cupid, Jesus..all”

Cupid grumbling turns to take a look at Anna and Darren , still asleep. He stares at his bowl, empty, and then back at him..sighing, he follows him as they walk into another cloud.

*

”I would tell you what i have been trying to tell you, what we have been trying to tell you about this four letter words called ‘Love ”….

The words i have inspired men to write reads in 1 Corinthians 13:4-5: “ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”

”I know that passage like the back of my hands father” Cupid rolls his eyes.

”Yes, and yet you do not understand that it is much more than a word.”

”I do”
”Okay, do you love me Cupid?”
”You know i do Father, despite that i do not see eye to eye with you, i do lobe you”
”Yet, you do not listen to me when i speak and do what i tell you to do”

”I do listen to you but i also have my own opinions and my head to think” He says as they walk into a garden, Cupid frowns ”Why are we back in time and in the garden of Eden?”

”Because i am teaching Cupid, and what better way to learn if not be visually taught. And to your answer, you are correct..you love me and even when i do give an instruction, you do what you think is right because you have your own thoughts and wills, yes?”
”Yes”
Jesus smiles and then says nothing, He and Gabriel exchange a knowing look.

”You remember Adam and then Eve, you remember how it all happened and even their end?” He says pointing to the tree of good and evil standing in the middle of the garden, a certain glow to it. The birds hovers above it, a certain brightness to the garden.
”Yes, you told them to eat anything but of the tree of good and evil”

”Why did you think they disobeyed me?”
Cupid frowns ”Because of the serpent, but men on earth would say Eve..”
”You, why do you think they disobey me?” He could feel his eyes on him, he knots his brows together.

Cupid is confused ”The serpent. I said so already.”

”Gabriel, Jesus, you want to say something?”

”They disobeyed you because they could” Jesus said coming to stand behind Cupid
Cupid turns to him shaking his head ”I do not understand that statement J. It was because the serpent made them, enticed them, deceived them and because Eve was lured and then she lured Adam to eat the apple that opened their eyes and thus disobedience.”
”Aha right..but you do not see that because they could, they did it. When you said lured..how where they lured?”

”They were coaxed into it”
”I see. Was it a matter of life or death if they didn’t eat it? Was it a matter of killing them if they didn’t eat it?”


”No. But they were enticed with it’s sweet words and -”
”How does a robot function Cupid, any ideas?” Jesus cuts him.

Cupid rubs his temple, ”What is this, twenty-one questions session? Robots are computers, no matter how well they are made and how human-like, they are computers and they function as such.”

”No free will yes?”
”Well yes!” he nods ”That is correct.”
Gabriel smiles knowingly.
”Why is he smiling?” Cupid frowns at Gabriel as he asks Jesus ”Is it just me or that i am the only one not getting the joke that is making everyone smile except me.”
Jesus says nothing
”Do not mind them Cupid, answer me this , to the best of your best of your knowledge, is man a computer Cupid? ”

”No, man is man and a computer is basically inputs and output, you put in words and a computer acts reacts to instructions typed to it. So inputs and then outputs.

”No free will then?” Gabriel states for clarity
”No ofcourse not, it’s an object..a thing, man made..made to do as bidded without choice”

”Good” God says walking further into the garden as they stand beside the tree…”Back to the first man and woman. Was man threatened to eat the apple by eve, where they forced..were they threatened?”

”They were enticed! What is this father, we have gone through that already” he was bored.

”How?”
”By the serpent” he says shaking his head ”You are the all knowing and yet you do not see” Cupid shakes his head.

He smiles ”I am the all knowing that is why i need you to see. Why did the serpent not say ”I command you to eat this now”
Cupid laughs ”I doubt it could, and even if he did, serpents are cunning, everyone knows that and thus he played it’s character well, cunningly asking them, enticing them to do what he wanted”

”Rightly so..thus, serpent albeit cunning are wise and it knows it cannot dare command a man, force a man to do as it bids. ”He continues ” Man was not forced nor was he threatened, he was appealed to..why? Because he has a mind of his own, to choose ..if he was a computer and i the creator had inputted..”DO NOT EAT” ..Adam would not eat had eaten that apple no matter what if it was forced down his throat. But because he has emotions, a mind, a will ..he has the ability to decide and because i did not want robots and computers for children i made them men and women and tasked them to populate the earth…but i also allowed them something essential…free will, the ability to choose…why?”

”Yes why?”
”So that i know for certain what is within their hearts and who they would follow without influences…and that is why when the serpent came, Eve and Adam chose to disobey entirely on their own terms because despite the serpent’s cunning ways..they too were also curious and wanted to know, wanted the good and then the bad and they decided in their hearts on their one, not the serpent forcing them, they..decided, had choose to..they had the free will to say no and walk away, but they choose to stay, listen, disobey…and bared the consequences.”

”I do not understand how it has anything to do with Love and then Anna and Darren. Adam and Eve are history, i am trying to make love happen here, what has it got to do with my love for those two?”

”Alot, walk with me”

They walk again …”Love is universal, it is a gift, it is pure and un-diluted..it needs no influences…and man is not a lab rat neither is he one who is confined in a place to do a bidding of another much less of you . You cannot force a man to love by mixing portions and creating an atmosphere for it. Man is a special being, with the ability to do him…
”What are you saying? Ability …to what, refuse my portions, my spell?”

”Free will, that is what father is trying to say”

”Does not make any sense..” Cupid throws ”I mix a portion after completing my formula, its very different from the serpent who just talks ..i make things happen. It does not make any sense what you are saying.”
‘It does! If you think it were easy to make man fall inlove by causing them to do so..do you think they would have done this to my son?” He opens the curtain cloud to view Jesus, nailed to the cross and the two robbers beside him…”

Cupid is quiet. ”Why you have to show me how they nailed my brother to the cross?”
”Teaching you Cupid, Teaching” He closes the cloud curtain and continues to talk.
”I would have sent down thousands of spells ,no i do not do spells. All i had to say was” M en, i command you to love him and i want you to love him now” and all of them would fall down, worship him and then love him as I have commanded them to love him, and of course my son may would have been loved at first sight. And maybe the scriptures would not have been fulfilled and then again.. .. what use would it be to have stooges who asnwer your beck and call only because they are being forced to, or because they are spelled to…or because they are created to and never have to think for themselves, to reason for themselves..but do every single thing as you tell them to do, bark and they bark, tell them to jump and they ask how high ”

”That line is from a movie Father” Cupid smiles, Gabriel nudges him.

“What? ” he laughs “Just saying ”
”Does it matter, i am trying to make a point”

”Go ahead Father.. Don’t let me interrupt your class”Cupid chuckles

”My point is this, you cannot make up spells and command men to love”

”I did and it worked until a point” He stated-matter-of-factly.

“Did it? ” Jesus asks
Cupid frowns. “It did, you saw it. From the first day they met and up until now it did. ”
“Did it really work Cupid. Or you thought it did? ”

Now Cupid stares at all of them and then back at him. He didn’t like their faces. It looked as if every one knew something and he didn’t.

“What are you saying Father”
”I have been saying what I have been saying right from the beginning of this conversation but you have NOT been listening. Love is not a thing you can make happen, you cannot make it happen”

”What are you saying, that if i cannot make love happen what the hell have i been doing since? How is it I was able to bring two souls, broken souls together and cause them to like themselves and do this with themselves with my arrows and spells and all hmm.. Give me a d--n explanation then!!”

‘Language!” Jesus cautions
”Fxxk Language ” Cupid swears
Thunder claps and lightening strikes. He is back to the ground with a hard thud. He groans in pain.

“One more Cupid.. One more ”
“Was just messing around with you Father.. Why so serious ” he says rubbing his bottom as he tries to get up. He falls to the ground again. All legs and tush showing.
“Oh goodness Cupid.. Close your legs! ” Jesus says turning away.

Gabriel laughs.

Cupid frowns covering himself and then standing up. He ignores him and says.. “Explain what you mean Father? What do you mean did it work. I saw it. You say it. Everyone saw it. ”

“No. What you saw was what you wanted to believe. With or without your supposed formulas and arrows and spells.. They would have met. They would have ended up together in that hotel room. They would have met again at the party.. They would have ended up going to the ship and everything that happened would have happened.. Even till what is happening now. ”

“How do you know that.? ”


Now Jesus laughs “You forget that he is God. The real MVP!! He sees all. He knows all . He basically can tell Tomorrow from today. And when i say Tomorrow, you know it isn’t just hours from today, i am talking long time zap into years and years you cannot even begin to dream in times past. ”

”Now you are just famzing” Cupid shakes his head

”Ofcourse i am famzing, he is my Father, i mean God, the God..the creator of heaven and earth and every living and non-living thing within, i have got to famz. My God!!” he and the others laugh.

Cupid stares below at the sleeping forms ” I made this happen. I brought them thus far” he says, trying to believe that all they say is not true.


“No. You merely played with your toys. You merely played out your role as Cupid. Supposedly. But the Irony of being the supposed god of love is that you cannot.. CANNOT force and make men to love. Even I.. Who is the creator of men cannot do that not because I can’t but because I understand the principles of love and the fact that in order to know true love that comes from the heart.. You must allow them choose to love you and love you wholeheartedly. And that is just platonic love.

For the love that men share between themselves between a man and a woman. It is dicey.. Much more confusing because it is way in-depth. You cannot mess with that. You