THIS CHANCE

I'm sorry if the men you've met

Didn't try to get to know you

We're self absorbed

Or self-important

Selfish children

With no world view

I'm sorry if they pandered

Or blander on to no effect

Or if they tried to buy you

To spend 10 minutes with your sex

I'm sorry if the nicer ones

Were growing fat and bald

I'm sorry if the ones you liked

Stood you up

Or never called

I'm sorry if you're tired

Of the ignorant and stupid

Or for all the time you've wasted

On a site like O.K. Cupid

But I would like to thank them

These ones who wore you out

So that maybe when you meet me

You will have no cause to doubt

That I am someone different

That I'm no ordinary man

I might want to someday kiss you

I might long to hold your hand

My experience has been similar

So I'll apologize in advance

Should I defy your expectations

Or define "your kind" of man

It will not have been "on purpose"

It will not have been "my plan"

It will simply be the payoff

For the 100 times

You took

This chance