Aesthetic Chambers

Quick to draw defense
Keeping your thoughts intact
Keeping me away
All for the best I guess
Nobody asks for this do they?

Just a bad assumption on my part again
Catalyst for abhorrence

Swallowing self, everyone else
Intact and readily digested, for the next big thing
Whatever it may be, there's never really any difference is there?
Caught up in subversive mentality

Thoughts surrounding consciousness become a second guessing game
Wounded and imperial
All else is lost in hopeless rage
From memory to monument

I'm not the only one overshooting my ideals
On better nights you'd recognize yourself
Breaking a sweat, taking offense from something that was never meant
To cause you harm, just to help

Passive relation from what I said to consciousness in manifested light
Negative connotations attributed to my best efforts
They are