Have you not known, grasshopper?

Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to live in;
who brings princes to naught,
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

Isaiah 40:21-23

What a relief and what a cause

of humility right down to my exoskeleton.

The shaping of the earth

and the timing of the rains

the rising of the sun

and the spreading of the stars on the sky fabric

the making and crowning of kings

and the dethroning of prideful powers

does not depend on me

a grasshopper in the field of the world.

But the world does depend on me

to hop and nibble on the grass

and stop and take notice with my compound eyes

of the sun, the sky, the muscle and immodesty of kings

and with my mandibles in full song

let praise and protest rise up above me.