Helpless

Can't you hear them wail?
Can't you see in those innocent eyes-
A plea for help? I can.
Don't you have a heart?
Don't you feel that pain;
excruciating? I do.

 Are you even human?yes?
 but I don't see how?
A boisterous monstrous breed you are
camouflaged by a human face; 
slaughtering innocent lives
and butchering hopes and dreams.

 And here I am, faint hearted
crushed by my convictions
handcuffed by laws
and bound by the fences
deafened by those silent screams
trying in vain to help, still helpless.    

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