Mona Bedi

Dazed

Lately I have been cribbing about the lack of love in my life… our lives. Thirty-five years, two children and a granddaughter later, I feel the lovelessness. It’s just work and the phone for my husband. In spite of my sleeping pills I don’t sleep well. Today, like the many other days, I slowly get ready for work. Once in the office, I stroll around, thoughtful. Suddenly I miss a step and then wham!!! I am flat on the ground. I gradually regain my senses. A coworker calls my husband. By the time I am up on my feet my husband is there. He is worried as hell. He lifts me up and takes me to the doctor. He gives me painkillers.

By evening I am back home with a sprain and a husband I love.

the flight
of her origami birds
dreamy night

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About the Author

Mona Bedi is a medical doctor in Delhi, India. She has published two books of poetry, they you and me and dancing moonlight, and her haiku and senryu have been published in Failed Haiku, Haiku in Action, The Haiku Dialogue, cold moon journal, tsuri-doro, and many others. She lives with her husband, two children, and a dog.

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