Emmi E. Banks
eebanks.bsky.social
Emmi E. Banks
@eebanks.bsky.social
::Transmuting life into words::
Pinned
The gravity of grief— I don't know how to tell people how I am. On the surface, I appear well, but inside, I'm caught between being too much and feeling like nothing at all. So I write, hoping they might finally see the weight of grief I carry and the void I drift through. #poetry #grief
The day my mother died, the world went quiet. Not in sound, but in meaning. I’m still clawing my way through that silence. #poetry
September 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The ache didn’t leave when I said no.
It just stopped knocking.
Now it waits on the shelf—
with everything else I couldn’t return.
No title. No spine. Just presence. #poetry
July 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My rebellion is stillness—
the art of staying,
of witnessing,
of refusing to become
what tried to unmake me.

#quotes
April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’ve always been told I’m too sensitive. Sensitivity, to me, is emotional intelligence—awareness, perception. I notice what others miss: the mood, the microchange, the unspoken. It’s not fragility. It’s precision. It’s design. You are not too much. You are attuned. #poetry
March 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In gilded cages, they sing songs of gold; outside, debt waits with an open palm.
March 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
To bear witness is to bleed. To care is to carve a space inside yourself for sorrow, to inhale grief and call it survival.
March 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
You remain in the architecture of me- pillars in my bones, breath in the halls of my ribs.
March 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
They build altars from the bones of the broken, dressed in mercy. I think of those before, if they watched the light dim and called it fate. They take, leaving ruin, and I’ve stopped screaming. Not out of peace, but knowing no one listens. Yet, I remain. Survival is defiance. #poetry
March 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I exist in fragments, scattered between what was, what is, and what will never be.
January 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some days, the weight of the past feels unbearable. The wounds are deep, the shards sharp. But then the sun rises, and light finds its way through, transforming pain into beauty. I never thought I’d feel whole again, but the colors in the cracks are mine now. And that’s enough. #poetry #healing
January 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I hoped writing could preserve the parts of them I was losing, crafting poetic worlds to hold onto something. Yet, grief’s voice is louder. Despite my verses, some silences are too heavy to cage. Now, echoes of everything slipping away are all I hear.
#poetry #grief
December 16, 2024 at 7:49 PM
I wish our humans could have danced upon Earth; the way our souls frolic throughout the Universe.
December 16, 2024 at 7:47 PM
The gravity of grief— I don't know how to tell people how I am. On the surface, I appear well, but inside, I'm caught between being too much and feeling like nothing at all. So I write, hoping they might finally see the weight of grief I carry and the void I drift through. #poetry #grief
December 9, 2024 at 12:12 AM
I wonder if they know how lucky they are, not to have to love you from afar.
December 3, 2024 at 7:07 PM
To everyone who has ever hurt me:
The fractures in my past weren't weaknesses-they were thresholds. I stepped through each, not in defeat but in quiet rebellion. The remnants of who I was no longer bind me. I've built something new, forged in the spaces you tried to shatter. #poetry
December 3, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Death taps politely on the walls of my world, but l hear the creak of its steps-always nearer, always taking the ones I love. Yet, in its approach, a silent confidant— a companion to the grief I know so well.
#poetry #grief
November 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM