Bulldozer Prints

Only the lazy, the stupid and the excessively pompous will say a poem has "no hope" -- I wonder which that particular site harbours most of? 

It is not perfect.  A few too many words, really, but nothing a bit of pruning will not improve immensely.  If you're minded to edit, here are a couple of suggestions to begin with:

In L3, there is really no need to put "dirt" on the end, why not just finish the line with "compost"?  Too many dirts.

Further down, instead of "That is my sod. That is where my roots are. In the spirit", I'd suggest "That is my sod.  My roots are in the spirit.  In the water" etc.

I'd remove "awesome" from "man's awesome might"... "man's might" would do fine, awesome tips it into cliche.

In the last stanza, you could get rid of sod.  See how "under the holy black that is the sapling's home" sounds to you -- to me, it takes full advantage of the sounds without repeating a word that is overused and unnecessary.

Now... I enjoyed the innocence of this poem.  The absolute understanding of complexities that comes from not filling your head up with useless crap.  There is really not a stanza that I would consider superfluous, nor even an entire line, just those few words I've picked out.  And that's not bad, eh?