Once we were artists, crafting drawings by hand
Creating designs in section and plan
With triangle, T-square and graphite lead
Painting on a canvas of vellum instead
Once we were artists, pen and ink engineering
Our creative images were disappearing
Pencils were swapped with computer-aid
I guess speed supersedes the old-school trade
Once we were artists, our drawings express
industrial know-how for project success
But CAD inexperience exposes the fact
it’s designer knowledge, they sadly lack
Now THEY are the artists, and must understand
To never forget on whose shoulders they stand
With CAD technology new eras begin,
But you can’t know where you’re going,
until you know where you’ve been.