Ephemeral social media rendezvous

Linkedin thru tenuous

webbed world wide

electronic thread defied

no matter flurry of emails/

messages exchanged flattery applied

courtesy transient online

tête à tête downside

cyber venue offers convenient exit

personal aversion, I chide

brevity figurative thorn in side

futile effort Androcles tried

I haint lion, familiarization denied

fledgling cyber acquaintanceships

dead on the vine, yours truly sighed

potential friendship never fortified,

cuz immediate value judgement cast,

instantaneously prejudiced aversion

perhaps hidden agenda implied

maybe intimated illusions of grandeur

netiquette nuances overstepped, I chide

yours truly vouchsafe

absolute zero great expectation

love smitten wounds pride,

the Italian girl in Algiers

inchoate mystique forever unknown

nonetheless fantasize bartered bride

figment of overactive imagination

hence grist for poetry mill

grateful fleeting rapport tried

to take flight before sputtering

doomed to dustbin of history (mine)

filed within memory as template guide

against future unnecessary disappointment

best stick to your guns abide

against infatuation lest

conjured lass doth override

focus on reality no matter who espied

Facebook post, tis foolhardy

to allow, enable, and provide leeway,

hence aimless thoughts elide

dear boy, ya never learned always denied

rapture becoming ensnared

noose sense and sensibility stride

ding blindly, dumbly, foolishly...,

into own perilous entrapment, verstehen?