When He Walked Into The Temple Poem by Gert Strydom

When He walked into the temple
with His whip slashing like rifle shots
He did drive away the deceitful moneychangers
and they were men who treaded on others to make a profit.
The usury laws that did protect against similar exploitation
have been scrapped and interest of 150% is charged
and I do know of a church president (a moderator)
that saves money at such a place as a silent partner
and he is a man that calls a beautiful woman that greets him
a whore and a slut as to the way that she is dressed,
does piously stroke through the hair of children,
in secret do insult, slander and damn other people
and I wonder about the God of love, who wrote on the sand,
who did drive usurers out of the temple?