My Fear by Lawrence Raab, is a poem where nightmares are portrayed as a person. This person watches us throughout the day, taking notes on what terrifies us or makes us anxious. Afterwards, when the day is over, and we are ready to go to bed, he uses our fears against us. The fear could be about death, an excruciating event, or a horrifying object, he will use anything and everything against us. The person portraying a nightmare, has a sack full of fears to pick from to scare us with tonight, and some nights are worse than others. When he comes by with the large sack, all you can do is to hope he does not choose something horrible. We plead him for something small and not too frightening, but we can only wish because he tauntingly chooses
