No Guarantee
by Fiza Pathan
No guarantee, no guarantee,
No guarantee for anybody.
No guarantee, no guarantee,
Although it’s made by everybody.
No guarantee for medicines,
No guarantee for their effects
As well as their after effects,
You may get some side effects.
No guarantee about Government policies,
No guarantee about their effects
As well as their after effects
Or even whether there is an effect.
No guarantee about education,
No guarantee about percentages
Except the advance payments of Professors.
No guarantee about their effects
You will only receive a lot of regrets.
No guarantee about population planning
No guarantee about contraceptives
Their effects and non-effects
And none of them are perfect.
No guarantee about safety
No guarantee for women
Outside, or inside,
They better all just go and hide.
No guarantee about privacy.
No guarantee against piracy
Their effects, affects
And all this we have to correct.
No guarantee about the rain
No guarantee about its effects
On the field or off the field
In the gutter or outside the gutter.
No guarantee about dignity
Life is now like a purgatory.
No guarantee about bank loans
You may suddenly be disowned.
No guarantee about retirement
Or VRS or CRS
No guarantee against robbery
Or debauchery or psychology.
In life there is no guarantee except,
One truth that stands alone supreme.
You were born to die a fool
By thinking all the time of what
Could never be guaranteed.
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