Delilah’s Apologia

I should have known after what he did
To the three hundred foxes
Sending them tail-tied, flaming,
Screeching through the wheat.

And that time outside Timnath,
He and his parents muttering of circumcision
Eating fistfuls of honey he said he had found
In the belly of the young lion
He had choked with his bare hands.

When I heard he’d been out slaughtering
A thousand Philistines, my people
With the jaw-bone of an ass,
I had to cut his glorious head of hair.