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Through Their Eyes
Author's Note "Through Their Eyes" is a work of fiction. The characters, events, and school depicted are not real. Warning: This story...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 202580 min read
Scheming
[Verse 1] I should’ve seen the warning signs, but I was too busy making you king. You had your hands on my crown, while your lips were on...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
Behind These Doors (Theme Song to bare)
[Verse 1] Ethan’s hands are shaking, hoodie strings wrapped tight Words get caught between his teeth, swallowed by the night Ryan’s...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
I Still Feel It
[Intro] Snow’s still falling… but I’m still stuck on you. Same streetlights, same cracked sidewalks, But I still see you here, laughing...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
Through The Glass
[ intro ] lying in bed, staring at the fan spinning in circles, just like my mind the space beside me colder than it should be i reach...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
Let’s Just Go
we were children, our knees grass-burned, mouths sugared with soda, time whole, like glass unbroken on the sidewalk. the world was wide...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20253 min read
Faded Colors
I used to have colors, Bright and bold, I painted with dreams That were mine to hold. But now they’re fading, Like whispers in rain, Each...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20251 min read
The Geography of Regret
I fucked up. Every kiss, every touch, every reckless laugh we shared— all of it gone, because I thought sacrificing you would save me....

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20253 min read
The Geography of Release
I left the house, the morgue with walls painted in shadows, where his ghost still sat at the dinner table, where the bed whispered sins...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20254 min read
Reckless Geography
The house isn’t home, just a morgue with walls, painted in the shade of my own denial. This bed was a sanctuary once, but now it reeks of...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20254 min read
What We Left Behind
[Verse] We were just kids, running too fast Didn’t know that innocence doesn’t last A stranger’s hands, a locked-up room A moment gone,...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
Pillow
[verse 1] Face smashed into a pillow that reeks of sweat and fear Black eye crusted, lip split, still bleeding slow Thighs twitching,...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
Performance
[intro] mirror on the ceiling lights like knives I forget my name before I arrive [verse 1] he paid my rent, so I pay with skin said it’s...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
Name Me Loud
[verse 1] I lost my job, lost my mind, lost the last fuck I could afford He was fucking some guy in our bed while I bled on the bathroom...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 6, 20252 min read
You're Still Here
[verse 1] You sat on your hands through the whole damn ride ’Cause if you moved, you knew you’d cry Heard your name in a voice that...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 5, 20252 min read
What Doesn’t Kill Me Doesn’t Get to Keep Me
my skin bruises from just being here from bumping into the world too hard from holding it in too much from flinching at the sound of...

Joseph Matthews
Oct 5, 20255 min read


Quiet Storm
The hallway reeks of gym socks and cheap Axe, the kind they spray like armor, thinking it makes them invincible. Lockers slam like...

Joseph Matthews
Jan 7, 20252 min read


In the Shadow of the Stripes
I am a child. They taught me about freedom in school, Showed me flags, said justice was the rule. But something feels broken, I don’t...

Joseph Matthews
Jan 7, 20254 min read


The Boy With Autumn in His Hair
We were boys once, barely more than whispers in the world’s noise, stitched together by the soft hum of a classroom and the secret codes...

Joseph Matthews
Jan 4, 20252 min read


A Home for New Year’s
Timmy pressed his nose against the icy window, his breath fogging the glass in soft, hazy clouds. Snow was falling again, thick and...

Joseph Matthews
Dec 31, 20244 min read
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