Answer:
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
A house full, a yard full, a chimney full, no one can get a spoonful.
Both punishment and sweet reward, It will befall both fool and lord. It is a spiritual scoreboard, Your every deed it does record.
My children are near and far. No matter that I know where they are. The gift I give them make their day. But if I were gone they would wander away.
The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Strip the skin under my skin, and my flesh you'll reveal. It tastes sweet and tart, now throw out the peel. What is it?