Dwellers of Mind

We live in our heads:
Romanticizing with past,
Flirting with future,
Chatting & snapping,
With inner soliloquies
& outer monologues.

So much so that

We pass the saluting gatekeeper
without a greeting.

We pass the wagging dog
Without a warm pat.

We pass the worried neighbors
Without asking how ‘I’ could help?

We trade with retailers
& vendors
only with money,
never with smile
or gratitude.

In the blind zeal
of tomorrow,
We keep passing over
The Gifts of Today.

For, we have become
the dwellers of mind.