Darkness Inside of the Iris

When I was searching for something else on my computer, I came across this poem with the saved name of "Darkness Inside of the Iris". I looked at the date when the file was created and this poem is like 5/6 years old. I do not really remember my mindset when I wrote it. It is very choppy - kind of like if you wrote it out on a mirror and then broke it or if you used different letters from parts of a newspaper to write it out. I guess it adds to the disjointed feeling portrayed in the poem with the very staccato breaks in the lines. I do not know where I was going with the ending: "The feeling/ Of the disillusion/ Of the illusion of/ Existence". No idea where that was going or if it even really makes sense, but I guess that it sounds cool so that was why it ended the poem. I did not really change much to the poem besides changing one line. It was originally "Who stares back", but I changed it to "Who's staring back". I'm just sharing this so you know the revision history of the poem, and maybe the change might have meaning for you as you engage with it.