Lupine Moon

A Vicious Cycle

Lupine Moon


Detached rationale 
Decaying morale 
Divorcing ourselves from remorse 

Mercy's decay 
Rotting away 
Compassion snuffed out at the source 

Victims of a cold indifference 
Are they so much less than we? 
Nurturing a deficiency of conscience 
Lost in our grandiose reality 

Condoning through silence 
Unwarranted violence 
Against those that we should defend 

Compassion rejected 
Humanity neglected 
This cycle must come to an end 

Turn a blind eye 
So quick to deny 
The suffering of those with no voice 

If it can happen to them 
It can happen to us 
It's only a matter of choice 

With lower forms labeled expendable 
A terrible lesson is taught 
The value of all life is lessened 
A departure from rational thought 

When acts of viciousness go uncondemned 
Our minds become warped and jaded 
The value of life in our clouded eyes 
Is slowly minimized and degraded 

Morality and mercy deferred 
'til their notion is all but deceased 
An ignorance born of vanity 
Denying the pain of the beasts 

Exploited for simple amusement 
Cruelty for cruelty's sake 
Desensitization transcends 
A connection that we simply cannot seem to make 

Spiraling out of control 
Seeds of violence will grow 
Morphing into an ugliness 
Upon which reason cannot be bestowed 

Conditioned by social acceptance 
The perverse becomes common place 
Brutality rotates in full circle 
A monstrosity we all must face