Sonnet

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled.
But the man who humbles himself will be exalted.
In the end our false humility, Latin humus, is always rumbled.
Into pride’s yeast malted.

Homo, man comes from the Latin, humus, earth.
Homo sapiens is earth that knows it it is alive and sound.
To be humble is to be down to earth.
Adam, the first man is made out of Admah, Hebrew for ground.

I was earth.
When I was born, I became earth that knew.
When we die, we will be earth that is exalted and in a safe berth.
Thus from dust we came and to dust we will return, but we grew.

Whatever we think, we will always will and should be humble, humus.
It is and always was thus.

Haiku

We came from just earth
Man is humus, aware earth
Homo Sapiens

(Thanks to Abbot Christopher Jamison in his book ‘Finding Sanctuary’ for some of the ideas that inspired this.)