Too soon? No.
You must be scared—
Loss of self-righteousness,
Everyone judging you evil—
Reality of hate’s finality.
© 2025 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
Originally published on tristanrobertlange.com, September 14, 2025.
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Tristan Robert Lange (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This acrostic is not written in sympathy for Tyler Robinson. Sympathy would imply I feel sorry for him, or that what he did should be softened. I don’t. He chose violence, and he must live with its consequences. What I do offer is empathy: the human act of stepping into another’s shoes, even when those shoes walk a path I reject. I can feel what it is to be terrified, to sense the collapse of certainty, to face the judgment of the world and of one’s own conscience. That is not condoning. That is not absolution. That is recognition of our shared humanity, even at its most horrifying. Poetry is not meant to let readers off the hook. This piece doesn’t excuse Tyler, and it doesn’t soothe the reader. It simply insists that empathy, something Charlie Kirk himself saw as a weakness, and consequence can exist side by side.
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