An Affair To Remember

    Your first cup of coffee. The perfect cup of tea. For you youngsters, your first Red Bull. All the other vices will come and go. Caffeine is forever.
   Perhaps you got behind the eight ball with booze and coke, or smoked the weed until you couldn't remember your name if you had to. I, for one, started smoking cigs at six years old. These vices will serve you or turn on you in equal measure. The caffeine is true love. Never the rapacious creditor, it both stimulates and soothes. Coffee in the morning, Red Bull in the afternoon, and a delightful,  full bodied Earl Gray, sweet and lovely, when day is done and evening is nigh.
   I can quit caffeine anytime I want to, but why would I ever want to do that? The Latins refer to Aqua Vitae, the water of life.
       Please, never leave me. I love you so.