Slaughterhouse

Born into slavery Denied all empathy An unfeeling machine Yet somehow it hates me. My mother was taken away As I screamed upon a cold dark floor Probed by sterile, calloused hands My body reduced to a resource. Forced into a cell So cramped that I can't move And all the others... The stench of our filth is unbearable, Exacerbated by the heat that parches my tongue. I scream in my tiny corner of a cold, dark world. We breathe the same air for hours on end, The factory was heaven when compared to this. Prodded, kicked, and jabbed. Forced from one hell into another. Cruelty in the things they carry Please show me some kind of mercy No light in the eyes that stare at me No light in their eyes No light in their eyes as they bolt my head No light in their eyes as they slit my throat Blank stares as I bleed out Blank stares as I bleed A life, short and brutal Agony, my only companion Nothing is worth this cost.