Anime School Girl Cyborg - a strange poem in progress

They pranced across the plaza
in bright and shiny costumes
celebrating their many sexy heroines
each similar yet so different
in ways most cannot fathom.

Then came the fanciest one
the girl all of silver
with joints like old gearboxes
and wind up keys attached
to various strategic body parts

Younger than most the others
wearing ski goggles with LED's
and other little aesthetic touches
the other girls just missed
while creating their cosplay outfits.

Her walk was so robotic
random hesitations and jerky motions
almost like her svelte body
really was a mechanical wonder
created from some steampunk vision.

She took away the prize
impressing the judges quite well
as she left the convention
a tear in her eye
for she was as appears.

An anime school girl cyborg
thanks to some drunken fool
who got behind the wheel
weight a drink too many
leaving her broken beyond healing

Until the lords of technology
offered her parents a hope
to keep their baby alive
but not able to feel
their touches or gentle hugs

Joints bones and muscles replaced
by pieces of hard metal
and powered by electric motors
that whine and chatter loud
as she moves them about.

Despite all her metal parts
her heart is still flesh
and breaks when others tease
not seeing her bleeding inside
from their cruel insulting words

Once I saw that tear
falling from her good eye
I had to walk over
and speak for a while
trying to cheer her up.

She never smiled a bit
fear made her cower down
scared that I was joking
setting her up once more
to have her feelings hurt.

Steel skin does not deflect
the deadliest barbs there are
those made of mean words
tossed with such negligent aim
hitting the weakest ones most.

So she suffers in silence
iron face hiding her pain
praying none can ever see
the trails of old rust
marring her eternally young beauty

Despite my offering of friendship
she slid behind her disability
fearing even after she knew
it was an honest attempt
so afraid of taking chances.

So she walks alone still
her path filled with pain
yet her shiny steel body
will never fail or age
giving her some bittersweet revenge.

(12/26/2011 - Dyfedd Rex)

Never look at your infometrics on a blog. You might cringe at what brought folks in, if not the search keywords, then the source url's will mess with your head. This poem came from a keyword search reported one week that set me to thinking, could I do an Anime poem? So this is the effort... hope you all enjoy it.