Losing Alaska

An Ode To Life

  • Hope

    What is hope?A dying ember that ebbs and flows on the flame of life.What is hope?The end of me?The last touch of fingertips before a plummet to an inevitable death.What is hope?The death of me.The birth of my all-encompassing despair.What is hope?But a curse.A binder to a life I do not wish for.A chain to Read more

  • Rehab

    Rehab,The place where wedding rings disappear and marriages are put on hold,Rehab,A place where fourteen days of knowing someone equals a lifetime,Rehab,Where men and women come back to pick up their much to young soul mates,Rehab,Brains still maturing on mommy and daddies’ dime,Rehab,Reaper of rings. Read more

  • Handle-less

    My will has gone out,I am trapped in a hallway with no end or beginning,The only light is from holes,Tiny little holes on handless doors,Impenetrable doors of steel and ice and brick,Doors I will never breach,Doors of which I can peek through endless hope filled holes,Holes containing that which is sacred,Love attachment and joy,Doors I Read more

  • Sinister

    She woke up.  Not startled awake or shaken awake but the awful sort of awake from the feeling of being watched.  The awake you become when something, or worse, a someone somewhere they should not be.                 Too scared to move or open her eyes she lay awake simmering in her own untamable fear as Read more

  • The Keep

    The Keep The stone was high, but the marble of the temple was higher. Warm and smooth on the outside opposite the cold hard, un-sun touched walls within. Sleeplessly sleeping chained in the center of the smooth and vast dark consumed chamber was a lone figure visible only by the candles that led from the Read more