Hope! Pain.

Expect the worst and the best
Can you do it
Yes and no
Don’t try and give
Yourself totally
To the effort,
Beyond what is
Required
Take these aphorisms to 
Your liver and apologize
Drunkenness taken tithe
Give up and out the failures
Leave your adaptability lithe
Grainy sands count up your time
All of it soon lost
Rhythmic music touchtone slime
Unthinkable the cost