This is a collection of poetry celebrating the darker side of love and other topics. The poems mix humor, idealism, and cynicism and strive to make you laugh think and feel. If you enjoy these poems email amandalashnovels@gmail.com Disclaimer: These poems are intended for a mature audience over 18. Any characters mentioned in the poems are over 18. here is an excerpt In closing Every relationship shares the same epitaph someone stopped caring and another stopped trying and 2 into 1 became only one half Behind the Mask Lipstick, rouge, polish, 'scara behind her mask she no longer remembered her real face or a time when innocence was more than one more guise she donned in the service of goals she no longer remembered why she'd wanted