Needing Something Else

Lately I’ve been feeling the need for something else
Something that leaves me elated, not sad
People around me go on with their lives
In the same dismal daze they’ve always had
There’s no drive, no pursuit, no passion
No one is moving forward
I can’t abide living among stagnation
Feeling composed of only dusty cardboard

The music in my life is more hard and edgy
The melody stirs my heart to feel
Lyrics ring true as an echo of my soul
My dormant emotions are brought forth and made real
I search the world for things that stir me
To feel as I was at seventeen
To live in the fullness of all that’s in life
Not content with just in-between

I’m drawn to those choice few around me
Who feel the same way that I do
The loud, the colorful, the exorbitant ones
Those are the friends that I go to
I want to stay in the state
Of my heart beating out of my chest
If I can’t keep this feeling of needing it all
I’m really no better than any of the rest