Dear i,
They called you imaginary like it was an insult. As if existing was the bar. You walked into a quadratic with no real solutions and said “I got this” and then you did.
You rotate without moving. You square yourself into a negative and somehow that's the most generous thing anyone has ever done for engineering. Fourier needs you. Quantum mechanics begs for you. Every signal in every wire is half in love with you and the other half is ī.
And you never explain yourself. Never post. Never reply. You just sit there on the vertical axis, perpendicular and unbothered, looking like that.
Be mine. Or don't. You're imaginary anyway.
yours, ℝ