No one is ignorant of the fact that dating apps are more popular than ever. They may have started as something that 30-year-olds used when seeking a partner for serious relationships, but thanks to our dating culture, college students all over the world have taken over these online dating apps. In lieu of a long story about previous personal experience, here's a little poem about matching online.
ONLINE MATCH
Today’s matches are made
with clicks and
swipes, and yet
you wonder
why your heart
beats steady, does not
skip or
why your smile
is not fixed in
place, why
you’re still
walking through empty
corridors and
halls and why
there are spaces
between your
fingers that
are not filled
How can you
expect to feel
crunch of sand beneath
the soles of your feet
and a tight hold
on your hand
as the sun lays
down for the
approaching night
In a screen; in the
Screen of your phone,
Of your laptop,
Of your tablet,
To find truth
in a sea of lies
like the scrambled words
in a word search
Tinder, OkCupid,
Bae, Zoosk,
All these tools that
match you up,
that search for your
next hookup like
an addict looks for
the next fix.
It’s all about the
pixelated faces,
the abs, the hair
fabricated witty
lines and business-like
conversations stating
date, time, place
Caught in the screen’s
white-glaring light
just like a moth is
drawn,
Convinced that
you’ll be
guided to
the one you have been
Looking for.
