The Temple by any other name would smell as sweet.

Before solomon 
before the temple on the mount
there in jerusalem
where yhwh would dwell
in thick darkness

god of israel
or prisoner

There
where abdi heba had been
appointed to rule
all those years ago
writing to akhenaten
who read the notes
as he sat by a reflecting pool
in the cool of the evening
amidst the fragrant lotus blossoms
and the lilies
with his children at his feet
(for he was a loving father)
in his new desert city
there in the east
abdi heba, abdi heba, he would sigh
whining about his neighbors
and their disrespect to pharaoh
and their generally disreputable behavior

oh little jerusalem
garrison town
the back of beyond
a place of no import
and little value

for let us not forget
there was a time before yhwh
and his temple on the mount
many years
before yhwh dared
declare himself
the one god

many years when shaddai
wandered the desert
bound to the mountains of sinai
(by his fathers curse)
beyond which he dared not tread
having incurred the wrath of his father
elyon
husband and lover of asherah
who divided the world
between their many sons
the sons of elyon and asherah
allotting to each his bounds
and borders
(as is spoken of in deuteronomy)
then elyon rested
and his mind dwelt elsewhere
and his gaze became inward
and his thoughts deep

and so
sophia lost her way

so it was that
the sons of god found the daughters of men
fair to look upon
and so desired them
(was it not ever thus?)
siring then a race of giants
men of renown

but shaddai 
(who was not yet el nor yhwh)
did not desire
the daughters of men
desired not
the gifts of his father
nor the love of his mother
rather
shaddai desired
power
above all else
and over all others

so when he rebeled
elyon bound him to the mountain
there in the desert
alone.

There did shaddai brood 
upon how he would be revenged
upon his father
and his fathers creation
until one day he found a way
to loose the words
which bound him there
for his father slept
and the sons scattered to other places
other worlds
and the giants died 
and asherah? 
perhaps she took a different form,
or not.
and so shaddai was left
the one god
king of the mountain
who would be
king of the world

So freed
he descended upon egypt
like the plague

It is said that when vespasian
destroyed the temple in jerusalem
he had the stones shipped
to rome
bits and pieces
bits and pieces
where he used them to build
the coliseum
so the stones of the temple
where men had slaughtered animals
to feed an angry god
became the stones of the temple
where animals slaughtered
the children of men
to sate an angry crowd
The children of yhwhs jailors
the three pillars
the seven followers
the ten righteous men
and the twelve

for what is a temple
but a prison for a god
great as yhwh

If one cannot destroy ones enemies
then one must seek to find a way
to make ones enemies
destroy themselves.