Arpan Panicker's Blog
September 22, 2015
The Pursuit of Isness
So, there are two ways to look at this. You are here, at this point in life. You are trying to break free and live your life the way you want to. You are tuning in to things you feel are important and giving them the f...
April 10, 2014
The Great Fantasy Renaissance
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March 13, 2014
The Cipher
“I love you,” she said. Her face was damp with tears and the misery made her look ugly and old. She was young and pretty; at least she had been an hour back. When she had believed that I loved her back.
I looked across the café at the barista. She was decorating a cream topped beverage with bright pink sprinkles. The moment warped and grew sparkly as everything became razor sharp but tinged blue, like a great TV screen going bad. I could see the sprinkles reflected in the barista’s eyes.
I t...
March 1, 2014
The Dream
The mind is cruel
It toys with you
It makes you think
You think you want
It makes you believe
You believe you need
It makes you dream
But it's all in the mind
It sets you off, chasing mirages
It convinces you that they're yours
Personal, irreplaceable dreams
It leads you on a merry chase
It makes you doubt
It makes you wonder
It makes you bitter
And a bit of a cynic
It might even make you crazy
Till that incredible point in your life
When you actually catch a dream
And hold it, fluttering in your hands
When yo...
December 19, 2013
The 5 Stages of Brotherhood... and Life!
Boys will be boys and girls will grow up into wonderful, complicated women. Boys do grow wise too, but we also manage to stay stupid. We celebrate our victories and failures with delirious mirth...
October 15, 2012
Back and Forth
Is it beginning or has it endedYou’re hurt and aren’t yet mendedYou might have let go You don’t want to knowLooks like your life’s been upended
With flipping tummies and vertigo Gravity does push, pull, and throwYou plunge and rise With misery and delightLife’s scary if your phobia’s an acro
Your winter’s full of your criesStill not over summer’s surprise Gets better from hereNothing more left to fearTruth’s worse than the worst of lies
Lots more to come, my dear Laugh insanely or shed a tearIt...
May 31, 2012
The Tale of Everend
Her eyes grew large as he said the words she was waiting to hear; once upon a time…
She knew what was to come. She had heard this one a million times. Each time, the story was the same, and yet so different. She had so many memories, and she didn’t know how Papa did it; her favourite parts never changed; and still, there was so much new detail in every retelling. Papa had a way with words, and his stories had so much more life that her little crayon men had ever had. Each time the story start...
April 26, 2012
Staring into Space
I've been staring into space
It's dark out there
I see things
Swimming in the murky depths
Thoughts melting into fears
The future clawing its way up
Out of the past's long-dead grave
The same old stories
With the same old endings
And it's all still as scary
I've been staring into space
Seeing if I can spot myself
A happy me in a happy morrow
It's dark out there
Maybe it's night there
But then the shadows I see in the depths
Do not comfort, do not ease my worry
I've been staring into space
The moon's bright a...
April 13, 2012
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February 26, 2012
Think Write
To die will be an awfully big adventure Fly away, Wendy bird, fly away How terrible it is, to be bound in this wayOur choices and our perception define us, limit us No, I do not agreeI can make it possible, anything possible What about… No, we’re not going thereGod, my head’s such a messI was simple enough when I was born Then, life happened Halfway through and so much left to doI have to build a totem pole The sheer joy of working with your handsWet mud, wood shavings, paper Writing… a...