Mr. Fear

"He follows us, he keeps track. Each day his lists are longer." I liked this poem, it had a darker vibe to it and delved into subconscious stuff. I think this line means that our fears never leave us and as time goes on we develop new fears which makes that "list" longer.
The second stanza was about nightmares. Mr. Fear's sack of troubles are things that frighten us in our dreams even though in real life we may not be afraid of it. In the third stanza, the author asks whether Mr. Fear is happy when he reaches into his sack and finds something or sad. When it said happy, I imagine a sinister smile, Mr. Fear would be happy because he's about to cause us that fear and because he is evil and dark he find pleasure in it. The sad side of it, I imagined as he's sorry that he has to cause this fear but he has to do it.
"Tell me, Mr. Fear, what must I carry away from your dream." I see this line as when something from a dream haunts you. Frightening things from a dream really sticks with you and sometimes you never forget it. The next part in the poem about where the author begs fro Mr. Fear to make whatever he is pulling from his sack to be small, so that it can be easily forgotten and won't haunt him. Near the end of the poem about the crickets and the author listened to them before he slept. I thought it was interesting because often we dream of stuff we saw right before we went to bed or of stuff that's on our minds. So hearing the crickets and then dreaming about them at night was a correlation I had because even a minuscule thing like crickets can scare you when they become something frightening in a dream.

On a side note I was thinking of this when I was writing this. When I read a poem I automatically think a woman wrote it and then I look at the author's name and realize it was a man who wrote it, it sometimes changes my perspective on the piece. So I wondering does everyone automatically think a piece of literature is written in their gender's perspective if they don't know who the author is?