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
