All Lessons Are Eventually Forgotten

All well and good to confess
Most of your failures have stemmed
From doing the easier,

Pleasanter thing, rather than
The harder, more correct thing,
But what kind of creation

Consists of situations
In which every pleasant choice
Must be punished, and the right

Is almost always hardest?
You find yourself living, faced
With hard and pleasant options

Just to learn the hard lesson
There are no pleasant options?