Ph: Memorial: Remembering Neethu Panicker - Chapter 1 Rev 3 Poem by Brian Johnston
Ph: Memorial: Remembering Neethu Panicker - Chapter 1 Rev 3
(A Life Worth Living)
Seems I have to accept you are gone from my life
Though in truth you were really a minor
Who became major leaguer, in spite of the facts,
On the day that you called me grandfather.
We adopted each other for better or worse,
A blood bond formed with poetry's heartbeat.
Childless senior who shared your unspeakable loss,
Youthful poetry: watering my life,
Both my marriages barren (I guess it was fate)
Your real family gone in an instant.
It was mother's last gift to push you from their car
(Barely hanging from cliff and on fire) ,
She succeeded to launch oldest girl from the nest
Though she failed at extracting your brother.
It was mom's love of life that gave birth to your muse
When you woke a month later from coma!
Though you missed out on closure of family wake
Now you honor their lives with your talent,
And weep poetry's tears you can no longer fight
With your brother, just memory fading. (1)
Brian Johnston
July 8,2016
Neethu Panicker was a 16 year old female poet on PoemHunter.com when I first became acquainted with her. Suffering from depression and complications from brain trauma after her fall and she eventually withdrew from PoemHunter and may now be deceased. With her leaving PoemHunter all our correspondence disappeared so this poem comes mainly from my memory of her many emails to me.
There will be several more Chapters to this poem as I find time to write them and every word is a faithful paraphrase of her life as she shared it with me. We never met, so a caution, she could be a fictional character though I personally want to believe her story is true. I will do my best to share this amazing story for I may be the only one who can. I do apologize for the serial nature of this 'poem' but it is really quite an undertaking as time will reveal.
(1) Her only extant work 'MISS YOU BRO' that I know of can be found on my PoemHunter.com site under the title 'Ph: Poem En Duo: Views Of A Dark Canyon' and on PoetrySoup.com under the title 'Views Of A Dark Canyon: Poems En Duo 1.'
Brian Johnston
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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5/10/2024 3:10:37 PM # 1.0.0.1119
i think some of this is a bit cryptic for me. i recall some contact with the memorialized member a couple of years or so ago. i'm glad Brian recognizes that she could be a faker. i'm NOT saying she is/was. oh no! poetry is a good tool to release feelings. go for it, Brian. i'll take a peek at chapter 2 now, 'AS TIME ALLOWS'. bri :) p.s. I'LL never call you grandfather. and you never have to write a poem about me.