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.
Tittu
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Author:
Tristan Robert Lange (
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Comments6
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. 🌹
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
That's got Popeye muddled. He always thought it was: 'I think, therefore I am'. He is what? WCAT! 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...
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.
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.
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