Notice of absence from Tristan Robert Lange
Friends, I’m doing my best to keep up with comments. 😅 I’m still current on my own poems and first replies on others’ work, but this season has been a bit of a twister. Figured I’d drop a quick note so you don’t think I’ve vanished or gone flaky.
Read. Write. Rise. Realize. 🤘💀🖤
Friends, I’m doing my best to keep up with comments. 😅 I’m still current on my own poems and first replies on others’ work, but this season has been a bit of a twister. Figured I’d drop a quick note so you don’t think I’ve vanished or gone flaky.
Read. Write. Rise. Realize. 🤘💀🖤
i am,
therefore,
i think—
which is what
THREATENS
your sense of
control.
© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, March 26 2026.
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I have simply come to the age that those who don't wish to be around me, are simply ignored it's not that we don't try dear Tristan it's that we try too hard. This is a profound short piece my friend leaving the reader with much reflection. 🌹
Teddy, this means a lot…thank you. There’s something real in what you said about trying too hard…that tension sits in this piece, for sure. Thank you, my friend.🙏🧠🔥⚡
I am not sure if it is the being or the thinking that is most threatening. Mind provoking my good friend and from the time of Descarte, maybe before, this dilema has plagued the mind. Most philosophical it pricks the brain. Nicely done
Soren, my friend, I love where you took this…that question of being versus thinking cuts right to the core. Indeed, I am not too sure...which. Most likely both in some way or another. Glad you had fun with this little Descartes inversion. Much appreciated, my friend. 🧠🔥🙏⚡
Most welcome Tristan
That's got Popeye muddled. He always thought it was: 'I think, therefore I am'. He is what? WCAT! lol.
Orchidee, haha…this is great. Popeye getting tangled up in philosophy and landing on WCAT...yup, that tracks! 🤣 🙏🧠🔥⚡
That Ol' philosophical Popeye. That's what he calls it, is it? Calls what?! Oh dear - WCAT! Alas, does everything end up in that category with him? lol.
Nah, sorry Tristan: thinking alone isn't enough - it is the quality of the thought which counts. Further, successful control is measured by outcomes...
Hopefully it will still put the terrors up somebody if applied with focus...
Dave, I hear you…but this piece is actually flipping the order. It’s not “I think, therefore I am”…it’s “I am, therefore I think.” The existence itself is what unsettles…thinking just flows from that. I appreciate you engaging it, my friend. 🙏🧠🔥⚡
A powerful poem.Your words like "Amen," "think," "THREATENS," and "control" emphasize a dichotomy between faith or acceptance and the assertion of individual thought. "Amen" suggests affirmation or conclusion, while "THREATENS" in all caps highlights the intensity of the idea that independent thought can be destabilizing to established power structures.
Friendship, thank you…you really captured the heart of it. That pull between affirmation and disruption…between “Amen” and what threatens control…that’s the space this lives in. I’m grateful you read it so closely and felt that tension. 🙏🧠🔥⚡
I read somewhere that 99% of "our" thoughts are not even ours. I like this challenge to the almighty belief that "I am "my" thoughts," Tristan.
Mutley, I love this angle…that idea that most thoughts aren’t even ours really shakes things up. Always appreciate where you thoughts my friend. 🙏🧠🔥⚡
So be it!
Amen! Thank you, my friend. Much appreciated. 🧠🔥🙏⚡
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