Life's Ironies

Don't ask too much or ask for much! You'll be a nuisance if you do. Yet, don't forget to ask anyway! It'll be mere nonsense if you don't. Dare to take risks, you, foolish friend! You'll thrive way more if you do. But avoid great risks by the way! Nobody can stay safe if they don't. And there you go! On and on without respite, coldly bombarded with do's and don'ts. "It's that we care, ungrateful clay," you'll hear them sing all day long. Shielded by benumbing praise, they will, by all means, enforce their self-proclaimed rights to be the bearers of universal truth the only ones endowed with clear foresight and blessed by wisdom's light the elect of life's ironies who must school and rule without request without consent with if and can, and cant and rant