Mr. Fear

Mr. Fear by Lawrence Raab

He follows us, he keeps track.
Each day his lists are longer.
Here, death. And here,
something like it.

Mr. Fear, we say in our dreams
what do you have for me tonight?
And he looks through his sack,
his black sack of troubles.

Maybe he smiles when he finds
the right on. Maybe he's sorry.
Tell me, Mr. Fear,
what must i carry

away from your dream.
Make it small, please
Let it fit in my pocket,
let it fall through

the hole in my pocket.
Fear, let me have
a small brown bat
and a purse full of crickets

like the ones that i heard
singing last night
out there in the stubbly field
before I slept, and met you.

When we read this in class I thought that it was talking about dreams or nightmares and how sometimes we wonder what kind of dreams we are going to have that night. Whether it is a nightmare or a wonderful dream. We can only hope that our dreams are not filled with death and major fears. We can only ask for crickets and small brown bats before we fall asleep because we are not in control of how how fear effects our dreams.
"He follows us, he keeps track." This line i felt like it was saying that we can not escape from our fears because it is constantly following us and keeping track. "Each day his lists are longer." While he follows us he learns more about us and what our fears our. "Mr. Fear, we say in our dreams what do you have or me tonight?" So now fear comes to us in our sleep.
What I mostly got from this poem is that we can not escape our fears not even in our dreams. So all we can do is live with what we hand we are dealt and make the best out of it and live to overcome all of our fears.
I noticed that sentences were cut off in the middle and made into a new stanza and for me that made me think about what was coming next.