Something Rare

I asked my best friend to come over last weekend

A boys night for gaming, away from the girlfriends

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We filled up a cooler with plenty of brewskis

And grabbed a big platter of hot wings with blue cheese

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With sheer titillation I turned on the Xbox

Picked COD Modern Warfare, and loaded up spec ops

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The next several hours are admittedly blurred

As we sat on the couch not saying a word

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The only lights there came from guns and grenades

And slivers of moonlight that peaked through the shades

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Thoughts came to me scarcely like blown tumbleweeds

But one begged to be free so I had to concede

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“What’s the rarest thing? The thing that’s most rare”

Like a ghost in the room my thought hung in the air

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Though my friend did not show it I knew he was thinking

Racking his brain while he stared on unblinking

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“Maybe a comet” he gave it a try

“When’s the last time you saw that in the sky?”

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“Well comets are rare for us here on Earth,

But there’s surely no shortage in this universe”

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“A solar eclipse? A volcano blast?”

I said “those both happened the year before last”

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A new silence stretched as we thought a bit harder

I’m sure that those beers weren’t making us smarter

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“I’ve got it!” he yelled as he jumped up with glee

“The rarest thing just came to me suddenly”

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“It’s not in the ocean or skies up above,

The rarest thing ever is simply true love”

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His thought was put out there and left to ferment

Well that certainly was a nice sentiment

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But I told him “I’m sorry, I must disagree

Cuz true love is actually common you see

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If we went to my neighbours’ we might find it there

Shoot, it’s February, it’ll be in the air!

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No true love’s not special but you know what just might be?

A friendship like ours, and I don’t say that lightly

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We’ve been through it all from JK to college

I think that’s real special and should be acknowledged”

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And suddenly it hit me like a shot at the buzzer

Just how long had we been staring at one another?

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And then more than that, how had I never seen

The shade of his eyes was the purest of green

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What feeling was this? Was it wonder or fear?

Or maybe a fever from all of that beer?

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The next thing I knew we were inches apart

I looked at his lips and they started to part

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A comet, volcano, a huge solar flare

I don’t know what happened but I know it was rare

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Such a pure perfect moment without judging or shaming

Then he whispered “no homo” and we went back to gaming