What This Means Will Be Determined Later

To what end did you arrange
These patterns in words and lines?
If we understand your ends,

We can understand your dreams.
Without your ends, we’re stranded.
We sense that we’re mistaken

In holding this conviction—
You may have no ends. Meaning
And intention might not mean

The same thing. You specialize
In dreams without intentions
And search for good examples

Of stated intentions, goals
Actually achieved, that lack
Any functioning meaning.

We can see it’s appealing
To you to avoid purpose,
To steer clear of any goal

Other than arbitrary
(Such as reaching a number
Of completed components

Or imitating someone
Ancient’s irrelevant form).
Serious purpose deludes

People into confusing
The purpose with the meaning
That can only bloom later,

Like a ghost prone to visit
Architecture for pleasure,
Not since it used to live there.