Engineering a Writer

                                                                    Engineering a Writer

A poem by Obinna Nwoke

June 21, 2013

Why I Write Scholarship Entry

Listen to the writers and the poets from the heavens

Words that made me dream of inking since I was just eleven

To write was not a chore, not an act, but a thrill

The first stanza spilled by the quill was a skill

A Poe in a world of Brunel and Faraday

Tinkering gadgets and new ideals everyday

Take from my soul the ambition to write

Replace with a burning ambition to fight

Let ambition take flight. Let ambition make right

The wrongs brought on by my dwindling sight.

Born to tinker and born to build. The will

This writing could just not fulfill.

Take out a gear, a beaker, no pens

No pencils, no poems, God when will they end?

No books, no plays, oh what am I doing?

Engineering is my passion. It’s what I’m pursuing.