A Taste of Life

A taste of life for me would be an orange The fruit is sweet and full of flavour The peel is bitter and hard to savour From the peel, you obtain the zest Concentrated flavour, the very best We eat the juicy fruit with zeal Some of us wary of the orange peel The peel is where the flavour's strongest Where we savour flavour longest Piquant, pithy and bitter-sweet What a taste of life to eat Sweet and sour, just like life Carefree days and days of strife Some lives can be bland and dry And that is the reason I Think that a taste of life for me Would be an orange