Mona Bedi
Mind Games
It’s called “Gray’s Anatomy.” No, it’s not the medical series by the same name. It does not have Dr McDreamy. Instead it is a textbook of anatomy in which 1,584 pages are full of pictures of the human body. I stop at the page showing a detailed picture of the human brain. It is not even 3 pounds in weight and yet is home to the varied thoughts of happiness, sorrow, self doubt, obsession and so many more.
As I stare at the picture for the umpteenth time, my daughter comes up and asks, ”Mom, do the thoughts in the brain spill out? It makes me think … what would happen if they did?”
I just smile and shut the book.
my father's diary
full of unfulfilled wishes
and lost memories
the way a lifetime
fades into oblivion
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.