Song of the Mockers

Bernardino Mei 1655

What sign can you show
that gives you
authority.

How can we believe

if there is no sign?

You are full of zeal,

but many before you have read

the psalms.

They too

could say they were consumed.

You claim this to be a marketplace

of our making,

but holy men have stood

where you stand

and they have not condemned our transactions.

You say

that if we tear down this temple,

a structure that has taken decades

to raise,

you will build it back

brick by brick

in three days.

Will you dance for us as well,

prophet,

king,

fool.

We are the disbelievers.

We are the hypocrites.

We are the ones gathered in a den of thieves.

And we are those who will forever ask for a sign

of your authority.

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