JD to JC

 JD to JC

I know you are there!! I can feel your stare. I know that where I go, you go. It is just the way that it is for us. You are as much a part of me as that bottle in my hand. JD and me, we go a long ways back on a spinning twisting road. I can’t even tell you from where we came anymore. I know you came along with me. My hand is empty now as JD, well, he is gone. So now, I lay here and yet you still stare. Who are you to judge me? I shake from the chills of the night as JD fades from me. You though don’t leave and yet don’t say a word, simply stare at me. Judge me; I can feel it, feel your disapproval. You know the drill just like I do; JD and I will chase you away again and again. Hoping you will disappear but you never do. You are always there like a mirror, a reflection. Why, why don’t you just go away? Let me hang with JD and fade away. Your gaze is heavy on me!! I sometimes think I feel your hand lifting me when I think I have had enough and urging me to move on. You point towards JD and wave a finger at me. And then draw a JC in the air and wave me onward. I never have found a JC in that liquor store. I seem to only be able to find my buddy JD. So drop the stare and let me be!! I know you won’t listen as you never do. You are so much more patient than any man I knew. I just want to live with JD but you urge me to find JC? Why? What can JC do for me that JD can’t? Oh now you can smile and point forward. Ah, there ain’t no JD in that building there my friend. No let’s get me some more JD!! There is a store around that corner.

Well, my friends, I never made it to that store….. I only made as far as that white building across the street. Inside those doors the chill was gone and I found JC. He hasn’t let me down or left me yet. I don’t always understand his ways for sure but I do understand he is more of a friend than JD ever was to me. His price….. there isn’t one.