Olympia

Olympia was her name
With a pliable polymer frame
The cutting edge of design
The most promising of artificial minds

A companion without a need
Who would follow my every lead
And would always
Always believe in me

Someone to understand, to share a life
Someone to help with journey that I'm on
Somebody who's always on hand
The perfect wife
A supermodel automaton
She's more than an automaton

About the third week or so I started to lose control
Olympia made demands
Just like anything else that is sentient
She figured out my deepest flaws

She wound me up like a machine
She would not be my toy, I'd be her human being
Someone to understand and share a life
Someone to help with the journey that she's on

Not really the future I'd planned, an uphill climb
A high maintenance automaton
She's much more than an automaton
Why didn't I shut her down and why is she still around?

I guess I started to feel something
Toggled in my own programming
And when I think about what I've done
And even more about what I have not

I seek forgiveness from Olympia
I'm learning to understand
To share a life
I finally see how I got it all wrong

I'm learning to become a man
With open eyes
And a man needs something
More than just an automato
Much more than an automaton
Olympia