Twisted lives and contorted smiles. Love, passion betrayal, death, sex and drugs. delve into and look at the often harrowing and self destructive situations people find themselves placed in, be it through circumstances of their own making or a series of unfortunate events that took them on that path. This collection of poems touch upon subjects we often choose not to think about or consider could ever effect us or enter into our own everyday lives. It is the authors intention and hope that many of the poems will make you consider how all to easy it could be for your own life to be dramatically changed from the one you currently find your self in. There is, in the selected poems, bound to be one that affects every reader whether they are interested in poetry or not.Each one like a small story drawing the reader in deeper and deeper with each word.