Numbers, symbols, Tangent, Sine
Plus, minus, multiply, divide
Made many nauseate
Brought them into quotient
It made ambitions doubted
To be hailed as engineers
To be lauded as builders
Got a title appended on their names
It was a dream
Math 17, reality sets- in
Knowing they were not cut for it
Numbers, signs, fractions
Exact computations
Besieged comfort
A reception in state colleges
Would-be engineers,
Skilled in drafting and drawing
Debunked by Math 17
Flunked, backed down, shifted, transferred
Some have become lawyers
Some became teachers
Some became priests and ministers
Also some emerged as poets and singers
Thanks to Math 17
Because not all were destined
Only few have been named
As engineers acclaimed