Love Poem: Internet Dating
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Written by: Tina Lasley

Internet Dating

Internet Dating
by Tina Lasley

Online profiles, IM’s and chats
This new way of dating
What’s up with that?

Sitting behind our computer screens
Writing our profiles
For all to be seen

Exchanging emails, flirts and winks
To online strangers
To see what they think

Checking out each profile’s stats
Looking for others
Who are most like that

Preferences, interests & other things
Constantly searching
To see what it brings

Long Term, Short Term or just Friends
Who’s looking for what?
It all depends

Have kids, want kids, go to church?
Smoker, drinker?
So much to search

Average, slender, athletic or plus
Is it a deal breaker
Or worth the fuss

What is your job? 
How much do you earn?
Is it a priority or minor concern

Single, Widowed, Separated, Divorced
So many options
To be enforced

Long gone… are the days of old
When you Courted someone
Letting things slowly unfold

We are now reduced to online meetings
Left checking the inbox
For our daily greetings