Taste Of Love

The king it’s well known found it no pleasure When the princess cited salt as her love’s measure How much princess you love me what’s the quantum Her reply left him dejected he looked intensely glum. You know what happened thereafter she was driven out of land She lived with pains of ignominy for taking a truthful stand. Love is too glorious a thing to be measured in spoonful salt The princess could find a better measure from her heart’s golden vault But she dug her heart deep for something unblemished without fault Found none better and precious than a grain of salt. The princess could say she loved like moon or any such pretense But to her father she didn’t lie her love for him was immense. Just think how life without salt would turn dull spice-less Palate would pine tongues rebel for salt’s sweet embrace She knew it well in her heart dwelled love’s gracious taste So she said I love you like salt a truth nurtured in her breast. Take lessons lovers you can pass love’s most rigorous test So long you hold in your mouth the salt’s timeless taste.