It's easy to be charming in text,
moving from one person to the next.
I'll give you all of my attention
but I may forget to mention
that I cannot distinguish you from the rest.

It's easy to be charming online
because with that few seconds of time
I'll think of the perfect reply
and though you might think it a lie,
you'll still believe me to be charming and kind.

It's harder to be charming in reality
because although it's the very same mentality,
I will begin to stutter and stumble
and I will mutter and mumble
and shatter your perfect image of me.

It's easy to be charming on the internet
but it is also just as easy to simply forget
that although the web can mimic the truth
and I offer up my emotions as proof
the fact is that we've never met.