How Can We Fall In Love With What Isn't Real
- Clint Haugen

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Two days ago I found out that my new favorite musician is an A.I.
And yesterday we let love die
Today I am getting drunk
And tomorrow . . .
I don’t know what tomorrow will bring
But Goddamn
These lessons sting
She was my plan
She was my future
And now
I couldn’t feel any stupider
How can we fall in love with what isn’t real?
Is being alone really that bad?
Maybe tomorrow I will get a motel room
And get really drunk
And try not to feel anything
Maybe tomorrow I’ll try not to think
Maybe tomorrow I won’t feel on the brink
Maybe in a week or two
She’ll love me again
Maybe in a year or three
Someone whose ready will love me
Maybe in a fear
Hides
My pride
Maybe everything I said and did was a lie?
Maybe that’s why I get so high?
I don’t want to feel this much . . .
I try not feel anything real at all
It's all . . . Too much
Maybe in a month
I won’t miss her gentle touch as much
Maybe in a year or 8 I’ll shut the fuck up
Maybe we needed this . . .
Maybe I needed this . . .
Maybe we were living in a fantasy and this is our reality check.
Maybe we made promises we shouldn’t have
Maybe we had hope we shouldn’t of
Maybe she isn’t my person
Maybe no one is . . .
Two days ago, I found out that my new favorite musician was A.I.
And yesterday we let love die
Today I am getting drunk
And tomorrow . . .
I don’t know what tomorrow will bring
But Goddamn
These lessons sting
Maybe love is a myth we created to combat our loneliness?
Yeah . . . Maybe that’s it.
Maybe in 100 years I’ll get over it.
-CH 12/7/25

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