I Unpetalled You

I unpetalled you, like a rose,
to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.

But everything around
—horizons of lands and of seas—,
everything, out to the infinite,
was filled with a fragrance,
enormous and alive.

-Juan Ramón Jiménez

I liked this, and then realized it was about people in general, but Kaitlin noted that it was about everything. That you'll never get all the way to the soul of something no matter how you try and analyze the parts, but you just get that sense of it and that's enough. Sometimes you can't explain things. Or you never can.