A poem about context

Context gives meaning. 

Off beauty I’m weaning

Unless it contains

Some truthful remains  

About stories untold 

As lives unfold. 

Context gives meaning

Like those who are gleaning

Add value to the world

As crops are unfurled

Meeting a need 

With a surplus of feed. 

Context gives meaning

Like a plot that starts leaning

Toward the moral of the story 

In every allegory

Because without circumstance

The point cannot dance. 

Context is needed,

For purpose is heeded. 

Without the background,

Conclusions lack ground. 

Context reminds us 

The meaning behind “thus.”

“Hello, how are you?”

Means nothing without 

The years we fluttered

Separately about.