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