Engineer
We are the future now watch us make history
This classroom contains our great nation’s brightest
Using hard science to solve the world’s mysteries
Advancing the world with our achievements highest
I the black kid joking with the only latino
Flirting with our class’s only two ladies
As we study and synthesize these acids amino
In jars of microorganisms that are quite weighty
I ask from my studies of fugacity and distillation
Do we apply the right pressure with the right goals in sight
Boiling aspirations separate society from integration
Are my privileged peers aware of the poor family’s plight
Every generation ignores quandaries vile to the next
The laminar flow of time sees not the eddies much needed
We compare to our ancestors and find ourselves the best
As if history’s great lesson need not be heeded
We are the nation’s brightest and I weep for what’s coming
If we sow new neglect we will reap old trickery
Enjoy our prosperity in ignorance unbecoming
We are the future and we shall repeat history