Hot Herbal Tea

It was an awesome herbal tea, having all the esoteric qualities that made an herbal tea awesome.  Intrigue, mystique, strange familiarity, a timeless invitation into the enternal now, a devilishly haunting aftertaste.  Indeed it haunted me all that cold, rainy afternoon as I murmured over and over to myself, “I will either drink this tea hereforth every single afternoon, or else it will never, ever pass my lips again.”