Leaky Faucets

by Jacob Lasher

Fear of love, fear of goodbyes, fear of life...Enter the mind of someone struggling with anxiety and how it can affect relationships including the one with oneself. Poems of love and loss, Leaky Faucets expresses the vulnerability of mental illness and accepting love, but most importantly, loving yourself.

177 pages, Paperback

Published January 18, 2020

Reviews

[Abantika(hiltonjenkin) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing. Leaky Faucets explores the dark turns the thoughts of a person with anxiety take and how overwhelming it becomes quite so often through poetry.

I suffering from terrible anxiety issues made me connect to it instantly. The language is lucid and the words flowery. The narrative has a ring to it and the pace, a flow. It strikes you.

" ... Where are you? Do you want to be found?
I scream your name but you don’t come around.
It’s been a while since you’ve disappeared.
I never thought I would need you here,
when I never leaned on you before.
So why would I now?
But if I asked for you to help,
could it ever change things somehow?
Well ... "

It is really a book that stays with you making you introspect aspects of life for days. It took me more than a day to sum up my thoughts. It's that impactful. Definitely recommended.

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leaky Faucets is poet Jacob Lasher's third book of poetry after More to Life and Cup of Coffee, both of which I have read, and, like its predecessors, Leaky Faucets is brutally honest in its delivery. The description on Amazon reads as follows: "Fear of love, fear of goodbyes, fear of life... Enter the mind of someone struggling with anxiety and how it can affect relationships including the one with oneself. Poems of love and loss, Leaky Faucets expresses the vulnerability of mental illness and accepting love, but most importantly, loving yourself." This is an excellent way to sum up the book, which is broken up into three parts - Repeating Cycles, Losing Lovers, and Love Yourself and Love Will Come. Like More to Life and Cup of Coffee, Leaky Faucets tackles mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety head-on, and it also addresses healing and how it is not linear. The healing journey does not necessarily have a destination; it's taken day by day, and feeling like you have healed doesn't mean that you are done having bad days. This is a theme prevalent in the book and a lesson that I have personally learned the hard way several times. Some of my favorite poems in Leaky Faucets include (but are not limited to) "We Were a Movie," "Afraid to Live" (which features the line "I'm tired of the feeling of wanting to go home when I'm already home" which I related to and understood so strongly that I nearly screamed in catharsis when I read it), and "Pure." If you're looking for a blunt poet who pulls no punches, then Jacob Lasher is your guy, although I would recommend reading his poetry books in release order because they kind of do come together to tell a story.

[Marie Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this in one sitting. True and honest poems describing mental illness which people can relate to, unfortunately.