Online dating is the way
Or so my friends they did say
Post a picture and some words
Then wait to hear from some birds

So then I did as I was told
And waited for things to unfold
Nobody said it was a slim chance
To have a lady to take to a dance

I waited and waited for a first date
When I would get a chance to rate
Someone called “Just a tee shirt”
Sent to me a timely flirt

Stunned I read the incoming flirt
”I like your profile" signed the ‘Tee Shirt.”
I clicked on her profile hoping to see
The girl who I thought was going to be

The girl I had gracefully holding my arm
As I entered a room to show off her charm
Watching the men wipe off their chin
And the women lose their smug grin.

So how could I know every part of her profile
Made up with such elegant style
Was going to be only a ruse
To find lonely men that she could abuse

The message was there, the message did say
So I followed the link to the message that day
‘You are so cute I want you to know’ the message did say
And my heart pounded my chest so hard on that day

“Call me.” I typed hoping to see
A message returned asking for me
To text her to arrange a first meet
Where I would get to finally greet

The love of my life this glorious day
She responded “I am sorry to say
I have to travel abroad this day
Can we please meet some other day?"

"Of course" I said not stopping to see
If she might just be lying to me
Finding a way to get me to give
All of my money I had left to live

I waited and waited for her to come home
When at last she did call me on her cell phone
The accent was wrong it’s not what she said
Asian somehow isn’t Aussie I said.

She hung up the phone without a goodbye
Startled I think that I was so sly
To catch that small error to end her coy ploy
I might be a fool but I’m nobody’s toy.