Salvation Of Innocents

It's time to de-desensitize Robotic in my programmed routine Cycle through the days like a machine From task to task complete repeat Incessant drudgery set to repeat Now I'll be the one to shatter the trance It's time to de-desensitize My actions will be the reason why It's time to de-desensitize The commotion outside of the gates Is the voice of reason that will change the captive's fate Follow the course of events Trace the trajectory One way or another They'll all be free Now I'll be the one to shatter the trance It's time to de-desensitize My actions will be the reason why It's time to de-desensitize Two prongs of attack Set for emancipation From conviction to commitment Liberate through action What other choice is left To stop these crimes? I'd rather break unjust laws Than turn away this time It's over when they're rescued Not a single moment before Compassion overthrows self-interest It's what all this risk is for It's what all this risk is for Now I'll be the one to shatter the trance It's time to de-desensitize My actions will be the reason why It's time to de-desensitize Two prongs of attack Set for emancipation From conviction to commitment Liberate through action What other choice is left To stop these crimes? I'd rather break unjust laws Than turn away this time

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Never turn my back on them I could never live as I once did I have to obey my conscience and answer to all That it bids Why would the hand of fate place me here If it wasn’t to heed the call? Destined to be the one who steps up Out of line to save them all All the files dissolve Awash in smoking acid Ill gotten gains their total destruction Rushed through the lab to set the prisoners free From the horror that they were locked into If what went on behind these walls Happened in the public’s view These tests would end from the disgust This would never continue Ticks of the clock rushing forward There’s only moments of time to rescue them Then to escape follow the plan Line by line The files dissolve awash in smoking acid Ill gotten gains their total destruction Rushed through the lab to set the prisoners free From the horror that they were locked into Out of the cages Out of the cages Out of the cages Out of the cages

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Shiver Discordant shrieks ring from every side To echo down the halls Soulless eyes stare into mine Apathetic to the agony That their hands inflict upon me The tormentors are emotionless Yearning for our last heartbeat Our escape's impossible from their ghoulish acts Soulless eyes stare into mine Apathetic to the agony That their hands inflict upon me The tormentors are emotionless Quaking in terror As the figures meet our gaze Restrained beneath the light as their scalpels raise Locked in constraints as blades slice through our skin Blood spills from the wounds as the torture begins Devices inserted the current courses in Jaws and limbs waver in silent motion Shiver Shiver Soulless eyes stare into mine Apathetic to the agony That their hands inflict upon me The tormentors are emotionless

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Practitioners of sadism Their monstrous countenance Evident in the morbid glare Of perverse science Beware the disease research Pharmaceutical complex Distorting propaganda Leaves the public vex Drugs and devices hyped as salvation Hold back cures to prolong the treatment's extinction The atrociousness of the intentional Inducement of injury Animal research persists a fraudulent practice ? an unrealistic representation of humans Wasting time costing lives Misleading conclusions Drugs and devices hyped as salvation Hold back cures to prolong the treatment's extinction Confinement... deprivation Trauma... devastation Differences in metabolism Blood pressure and anatomy Erroneous data is All that there is to see Practitioners of sadism Their monstrous countenance Evident in the morbid glare Of perverse science

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Another horde of fools surges against the gates Their empty slogans bore me I'll never stop Outrage in their voices On the verge of insanity The tantrums of emotional children Are all that I see Accosted with hollow threats So we're back to all of this again As I walk in the door to the lab Their empty slogans bore me I'll never stop All their protest and their efforts Don't do anything at all They're trivialized by the press While I'm protected by the law Accosted with hollow threats End your Research On animals Your activism is a fad End your Research On animals You'll be on to the next trend End your Research On animals After the novelty has passed End your Research On animals When your fever finally breaks The lab persists without a pause You will all betray your cause Suppressed by urge to laugh As their voices fade away After I'll still be here I'll never stop After I'll still be here Drawing razors through flesh After you're all gone I'll still be here Drawing razors through the flesh

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Pointless, needless Beyond human comprehension Existence devoted To nightmarish sadism How has science been advanced When vivisection destroys lives? By their indifference By their acceptance Humanity's been lowered in my eyes The lack of outrage speaks volumes In the absence of empathy When an animal identical to their own Is tortured without mercy Only a bloodthirsty Psychopath would do this As their choice After the sight of tears After hearing the pain in their voice Wailing in terror For the hideous acts of abuse to end Before minds shatter they contort They twist and bend The lack of outrage speaks volumes In the absence of empathy When an animal identical to their own Is tortured without mercy Ailing volunteers would advance The process overnight Cures perfected in time to save them Never see the light Depraved indifference to the creatures' lives While humans lives are lost For industry, for legality All suffer the cost The horror that won't subside Like a tumor that grows and multiplies Can't erase the actuality That plagues my thoughts incessantly The lack of outrage speaks volumes In the absence of empathy When an animal identical to their own Is tortured without mercy

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Glaring through the bars At a world that I despise Everyday spent in confinement Everyday I'm victimized Thoughts of freedom dwindle Down to a memory Growing fainter and fainter Now pain is all I know and feel Entombed inside the Utmost depths of hell Doomed to suffer a fate That's inescapable Entombed inside the Utmost depths of hell Doomed to suffer a fate That's inescapable Won't stop resisting Fight to stay alive Until I'm free or until I die My kind means nothing to them They mock our sorrow and fear Laugh at our screams of pain There is no reason There is no reason! No reason! The error would be in stopping short Of what will stop them Confront and combat With all that we have It's not wrong to hate evil men Entombed inside the Utmost depths of hell Doomed to suffer a fate That's inescapable Entombed inside the Utmost depths of hell Doomed to suffer a fate That's inescapable

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Sleep now in all our curses Only consciousness and unconsciousness Shocked awake with their screams Pouring from my nightmares Swallowed into darkness by the mouth of hell Scared by the grotesque In my mind they dwell It's terrifying callousness As if the animals were nothing Only referred to as test subjects As if they weren't living Cavalier and dismissive Creatures denied for what they are Icy rationalizations as they tear them apart It's terrifying callousness As if the animals were nothing Only referred to as test subjects As if they weren't living Unveil what they conceal It's for scientific progress Unveil what they conceal How is this advancement? What is the difference From the atrocities Of the pallid surgeon Of the innocents demise? It's terrifying callousness As if the animals were nothing Only referred to as test subjects As if they weren't living What is the difference From the atrocities Of the pallid surgeon Of the innocents demise?

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Can't reset to the time before Who I once was is never more The lesson that echoes forward From the distant past A gear that turns times cyclical Balance is cast Singular dimensional Biological automatons An alternate reality Where lives are used as pawns Choke down the jagged fragments Left mutilated within Struggle to maintain the anger's suppression I can't erase the actuality That plagues my thoughts incessantly Singular dimensional Biological automatons An alternate reality Where lives are used as pawns Singular dimensional Biological automatons An alternate reality Where lives are used as pawns How could a life be Devoted to death? Beyond belief how can this be It baffles my mind Beyond belief how can this be It baffles my mind Singular dimensional Biological automatons An alternate reality Where lives are used as pawns Singular dimensional Biological automatons An alternate reality Where lives are used as pawns How could a life be Devoted to death? How could a life be Devoted to death? Beyond belief how can this be It baffles my mind Beyond belief how can this be It baffles my mind

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

From one shift after another It all blurs into nothingness A drone that's set to turn the gears In a facility that I disgust Pierced by a glare of painful reproach As my vision reveals my own reflection Down the winding corridors Beneath the phosphorescent lamps Their desperate cries resonate From tombs they emanate Pierced by a glare of painful reproach As my vision reveals my own reflection How long can this continue on? How much more can it follow me? I can't ignore this forever and leave them to this fate Evil is as real as the ground beneath Their reasoning is falseness I won't be complicit I won't be complicit From one shift after another It all blurs into nothingness A drone that's set to turn the gears In a facility that I disgust I'm not afraid to oppose

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

I can't let myself decay Feel myself sinking into The darkest thoughts I've ever known Visions of torrents of blood Flicker in my mind when I think of their crimes To strike back for them, to watch it collapse To know they'll never victimize again Not ever at all Can't let myself decay into to what I despise Resist the pull of the darkness Above the hate I have to rise Fight to hold the high ground Focus on setting them free Won't contribute to the psycho Won't contribute to the madness Tentacles of the altering eye Hold the lens of distortion over it all Can't let myself decay into to what I despise Resist the pull of the darkness Above the hate I have to rise I have to rise

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Awakened to be tortured Dying through another day Trapped in an inescapable prison All hope is gone to get away from here Wither in pain frozen in fear Only death can make all this end Horrific agony The antagonist is all that I can see Is all that I can see The nightmare draws on without an ending Condemned to suffer Demented shells of beings crumble Normalcy has become anguish Rows of violated creatures wait for their lives To all be extinguished This is a place devoid of reason No trace of pity Terrifying mercilessness Sickening in their destructiveness In their destructiveness The nightmare draws on without an ending Condemned to suffer Metal jaws constrict and crush Fangs of steel pierce through our flesh Corrosives scald and then dissolve Let this be my final breath Let this be my final breath Let this be my final breath Let this be my final breath Let this be my final breath Let this be my final breath Let this be my final breath

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026