When you come away from home you can be one of many things:
A ****
A partyanimal
A geek
A talker
A listener
A doer
A drinker
A social recluse
An alcohol abuser
A hustler
A bustler
A fanatic
A panicker
A best friend waiting to be discovered
A great lover in the cupboard
The list goes on
But we are all one thing:
A fresher
A newbie
A greenhorn
Streetfighters
Run up quarterbacks
Soldiers of Fortune.
And I realise it can be hard
With everything going on
Trying everything new
Trying to make friends
We can sometimes get caught up
And lose our field of vision.
If I could give one piece of advice
It would be:
Be who you are.
Standup for what you believe in –
People always come round to respecting that
If you don’t do shots
Drink beer
If you don’t like ****
Pass on it in a dignified manner.
I once knew a guy who lost his field of vision:
He ended up firing a rifle out of a second-storey window
Trying to hit the centre of the O’s on roadsigns.
It might have been the exuberant amount of alcohol
He had consumed that night.
I just don’t know.

December 25, 2015
Dedicated to my daughter

Now this day is for ever more
For you got married on this day
And Jesus was born today
To bless humanity for evermore
For ever and ever and ever more
For today is Christmas Day
Now this day is for ever more
For you got married on this day
I can see you rising into womanhood
The Child shedding her last fetters
And shooting for the stars

Beenu Panicker

You say lifetimes last forever
But I don't see the how.
You say love conquers all
But I see fields of discontent.
You say there is a beginning
But I see only ends everywhere.
Where do I go for assurance
In this maze of hopelessness.

Beenu Panicker