Caveats are ubiquitous. I meet them everywhere
Any setting I pick up from my script and they are there
Murphy made laws and the laws they made him omniscient
Oh! Would I love to strangle his throat for being so proficient
Ifs and buts are preposterous. No proceeding is devoid
Of these tiny little speed breakers you cannot avoid
Corollaries to Murphy’s genius they can halt you in your track
One foot forward for the two behind yet you cannot go back
Pros and cons and ups and downs our world is full of them
Two sides to a coin is naivety there is always ‘and then some’
You navigate with eyes wide shut narrowly missing adages
The road was smooth the commentary exaggerated the pages
Talking-tos and telling offs are the bane of a peaceful existence
‘I told you so’s’ are generously peppered upon each reference
The lines crisscrossing my palm are beginning to dissolve
I am waiting for a WhatsApp from Murphy for a new resolve