This is Pat Doran's second collection of poetry. This collection continues on with the themes of mental health and the aging process. After being diagnosed with Anxiety and Depression at the age of forty-nine, he started writing as a therapeutic exercise, In 2018 he created a Blog entitled The 50 Year old Poet and at Christmas that year, his eponymous debut collection of poetry was published. The title of this book, Gentle Soul, comes from a poem in the collection which deals with his struggle of being too critical on himself