Meaning the Small Number System

Your ancestors needed
For some reason to be
Precise estimating

Collections of items
Numbering up to four,
Precision dependent

On paying attention.
How much does attention
Need to be paid to serve

The small number system?
Let’s say numbers mean more
When you’re focused on them,

And the numbers you need
To mean are the small ones.
You start to understand

How threes and fours emerge
Prominent mnemonics
In major religions,

But that still doesn’t say
Why selection pressured
Accuracy guessing

Just those little numbers,
Nor why they, like meaning,
Depend on attention.

Most of all, it doesn’t
Say why none, why nothing’s
Not precisely counting.