Perhaps if it had been
built with nonviolent
stone rather than the slaughtered
squirrel-suited
centenarian cedars of Lebanon
Solomon's temple might
have survived.
The God, the Allah,
the Jehovah worshipped
by Christians, Muslims
and Jews..
is not pleased by
the violence of any
in His name.
Gethsemane, The Dome
Of The Rock, Solomon's
Temple.. all the sites
in Jerusalem.. sacred
to God's worshippers..
.. every foot of Mother Earth
is holy ground, but especially
sacred is the ground
in which the children
of God reconcile.
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