Hardly

There is no particular

Reason to search for meaning,

Given you’re the animal

Secreting it. Most mammals

Scent-mark their environments

Then check the information,

And you do that, too, sort of,

But the data collecting

And personal signaling

Aren’t the whole of what you do.

You attend closely, to search

For meaning your searching makes.

Anything can mean something

If just one of you thinks so,

And many things if many

Of you think it’s meaningful,

Though the info stays the same.

Consider an empty floor,

What does it mean? Consider

The empty walls around it.

What do they mean? Consider

The walls are crumbling, the roof

No longer exists, the floor

Is not really even floor

But grass where there was a floor,

And meanings are everywhere,

Sportive meanings running wild.