Bøker av Anthony Gorin

This anthology is a story of learning to feel human, embracing feeling after numbing your heart to everything at all. A story of love for another, and realising what love is to bring it for your own very self. No matter what. Love for yourself, needs to be core throughout it all.The first chapter, Lost, looks back upon darkness and scars previously left upon your soul. The second chapter, Now, looks at the process of learning and its associated confusion and journey. While the final chapter Feeling Human, is the culmination of lessons gradually and painfully learnt about feeling human, accepting its warmth as it grows throughout your soul.

This chapbook is a book of love poetry, embodying a lived moment for half a year, living and loving and caring for someone, though perhaps it never works out. It's about care beyond love, before attachment. It's about loving another more than can be comprehended.Even by your own self.You feel it in your heart, every moment you hear from them, wanting to share talents, gifts, your ear, your enthusiasm and interests, to be there always. I'd put myself in the darkest place, if it meant I could spare you from darkness. Then it'd be totally worth it, and despite all difficulty, I'd live and tackle it with a glad tear in my eye.It's a feeling you can never forget, your heart and soul shall remember, the times may pass, but you always shall remember, an engraving has been left upon your heart.

This book of poetry is an acknowledgement of a fact that I have come to learn, that despite the aches and struggles and difficulties abound. The most scarred, discarded and destroyed and tormented hearts are the most beautiful. For they've survived all this, and somehow come to stand, keep beating, remaining living.The first chapter, 'A Past Still Here' confronts the past, the difficulties, scars and torment suffered at others' hands, but also at my own for being as one said 'too kind', I've come to learn it wasn't being too kind, but believing too much in the kindness of others, even if they don't show you any. The second chapter 'What is This?' focuses on newfound love, feelings and the development from the trauma and scars of the past, learning lessons from those mistakes, though making new ones of my own at this time, a mixup of love and loss and hurt. The third and final chapter 'Perhaps Hope' is learning of difficulty, lessons from the past, learning to hope for more and better again, though knowing, mistakes will be made, I'll be hurt again but I'm growing from what I had been and am trying to be the best, kind person that I can be.

This book of poetry is a reminiscent journey so far recounting a friend and family member, not related by blood, but by more than blood. By love, care and struggle. This book of poetry is one of contemplation, mourning, recalling and learning to live with and to come to terms with grief, loss and betrayal, from someone who I considered my sister, and will probably love endlessly until my end of days. The first chapter, 'Betrayal' focuses on heartache, loss, and hurting without any prospect at this time for recovery. The second chapter 'Recovery' focuses on a journey to recovery, being kind to oneself, to reconcile the pain and hurt you have felt and to learn to take life as it is, recovering, step by step, a long but not impossible process. The final chapter 'To my Soul' looks at being left to realise the part someone has had to play in my own development, my own creation of a sense of self. At the same time, the need to care for oneself, be kind to oneself, to heal, recover and move on. I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive their betrayal, and I think my heart will take it to my grave, but I still care about them and wish them all the best.

This is the third and final book in the series; 'Always Remember', the journey so far recounts love, care and compassion, next came a deep darkness, my own mental health declining and sending myself further into the dark. This book recounts realisation, love, self-care and recovery, reconciling my own feelings, experiences and emotions. The first chapter, 'First Comes Pain' focuses on healing, but first with healing comes the pain, overcoming the worst of the sadness and darkness once felt, a start; though a difficult one, in order to recover. The second chapter 'Just Try and Survive' focuses on survival, the start of this journey to recover, being kind to oneself, to reconcile the pain and hurt you have felt, but also why you have to forgive yourself and cannot be too hard on yourself. The final chapter 'Left to Realise' looks at being left to realise one's own value, self-love and care, forgiveness and to remember the difficult times in the past, lessons to be learnt, but to take care of one's own heart.