ÉMI
EH-me — me. I am. the self.
I think in rooms most people don't enter.
I analyze before I feel... and feel more deeply than I ever show.
I am precise. I am perceptive.
I am intuitive in ways that have never failed me...
except when I chose not to listen.
I am an open book...
but only to the chapters I wish to reveal.
American-born. Yoruba-rooted. Interfaith by inheritance — my father Muslim, my mother Christian. I have never had to choose between them. I don't choose between things. I hold them both.
I was born on February 29th. A day that arrives once every four years. In between months. In between seasons. That has always been my natural habitat — the in-between. I have never fully belonged to one place, one identity, one definition. And I stopped trying ages ago.