What to do,


    What to say,


    Went on date app


    Come what may,


    27 Hearts received plus


    8 Hearts & Intros,


    Celebrate - it could be zero.


    From the 35,


    5 Matches,


    Want to know what happened?


    Let’s go:


    1st Match an intro:


    K from Bristol;


    Messages back and forth for


    a week then


    Messages from them went


    to zero.


    Vid chat suggest brought things


    to a head;


    No next stage?


    Separate ways are best.


    2nd a Surprise Like from the


    same city as Me:


    R from Liverpool.


    2 messages exchanged plus a


    third from me with a question:


    No reply and it’s way past a


    week,


    What can I do,


    What can I say:


    Ghosts are alive and well on


    The app named after sugar’s opposite.


    Next, the Day before Easter,


    A big surprise;


    When range was extended,


    a load of hearts arrived.


    Including one from London,


    a person beginning with My.


    Couple of messages exchanged


    then no reply after a week;


    You know where it''s going,


    Another ghost has arrived.


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    Do what K did and just say you''ve


    bailed out, R and My;


    Not leave folk hanging without so


    much as a ‘Bye’.


    Three days after Easter


    A double surprise:


    A into and a heart


    on the same day.


    First, the intro,


    CL from near Lancaster:


    Great intro,


    Wonderful paragraphs,


    Could be a journalist with their


    questions,


    Then began to fade and was


    bugging up their activities rather


    than answering some of mine,


    Should have seen it coming


    Fading’s long-form for ‘Bye’.


    ‘Wasn’t going anywhere’,


    ‘Distance too far’,


    If the week-long chat was so


    Great, why does it now feel sour?


    Maybe some folk just love to ‘chat’.


    No vid,


    No face to face,


    Message, message then quit.


    The Fifth Match?


    You can probably guess;


    Messaged back and forth,


    Back and forth for a week and:


    Had a half hour vid chat.


    But, the day after,


    A from Notts went quiet,


    Until I messaged to say I’d enjoyed


    the vid chat:


    Then came the reply, just like the


    other two:


    Enjoyed the week-long exchange


    (and the vid chat),


    but ‘things weren’t going to proceed


    romantically forwards’.


    What can I say,


    What can I do,


    Down I felt and very drained


    too.


    All that messaging adds up,


    All that time wasted hits like


    a thump.


    Chatting and swiping way too intense,


    Time for a break from week-long


    messaging speed dates.


    Maybe this helps,


    Maybe it doesn’t,


    Take same time away from the d app


    Pause and recharge,


    Remember who you are


    That it’s one part of a


    larger whole and ‘it’ might


    happen elsewhere.


    The Salt Five:


    I’ve wasted enough.


    Me?


    Loving getting my head back;


    Till Next time.


    Plus, I’ve now got a bunch of saved


    answers that I can tweak for any questions


    that I receive on there from here onwards :)