A person or a woman
Same thing but different
By their genders
A person can be both
Male and female
A woman is only a female
Well, the human being
I’m talking about was a
A woman born on
August 26, 1918
An American mathematician
Her name was Katherine Johnson
She started from maths
But then geometry in math
Opened her intelligence wider
Making her an enthusiast of
Both science and math
She calculated and analyzed
The flight paths of many spacecrafts
She worked in NASA
She helped NASA
Send astronauts to the moon
And return them back to the Earth
Which is their home sweet home
Katherine overcame
Racial and gender hurdles
That helped make giant hops
For humankind
There is one unique thing about her
She was in when she was 15 only
Think about it!
She graduated with honors
At the age of 18
She taught black students Math
And broke down barriers
In a world where doors were shut
But she knocked and knocked
And then she opened them
For others to follow
Her work was invisible to most
But without her, the stars might not have aligned
For history to shine so bright
She didn’t seek fame,
She sought truth in numbers
Guiding rockets, reaching for the sky
Her legacy is not just in the equations
But in the courage to defy
She proved that a woman, a black woman,
Could write her own future
And chart a path
For generations to come
Her name, Katherine Johnson
Will echo through time forever.