D03 The Unsolved Riddle Poem by Simple Simon

Three days had passed.
One by one, they guessed,
But no answer was found.
The riddle remained unsolved.

To Samson's wife, they went,
To find what it really meant?
They said, 'From your husband
The clue for this, you must find.'

'If you fail to help us,
We'll burn your house,
And your entire family.'
They told her firmly.

She asked Samson, 'Tell me,
If you really love me,
What the riddle means,
And what the answer is? '

Samson, every time, replied,
'This, I haven't revealed,
Till now, to anyone,
Nor, my parents even.'

Seventh day, she cried,
And with tears she tried.
At last, Samson told her
In secret, the riddle's answer.

'Is there anything
More worth telling,
Than honey, the sweetest,
And lion, the strongest? '

She passed on this
To all her friends,
Who gave Samson
This answer, in turn.

Then Samson knew well
His wife made them tell
What he told her
In bed room earlier.

'You found it from my cow
And told me the answer now.'
Like this, Samson replied,
To cheat him, when they tried.

The power of the Lord,
On his shoulders descended.
Those thirty men he called.
All of them, he killed.

Samson went to meet
His wife, later, one night,
But her father stopped him
Before he entered her room.

He told Samson, 'It's too late.
Perhaps, you hate her, I thought,
And gave her to your friend.
You can have her sister instead.'

It was an insult to Samson,
His prestige was in question.
For him, that was a chance,
On them, to reap vengeance.

He caught foxes, three hundred,
The tails of each pair he tied.
He set fire to the knot
And drove them all out.

The foxes went around,
And burnt their corn field.
The Philistines found then
The man behind was Samson.

They learnt the root cause,
And burnt his wife's house,
While throwing her in fire
For the immoral act of her.

Samson acted in retaliation,
And killed all those men.
He went away in dejection,
And stayed in a cave then.