Focusing On Life & Death – a poem

This poem On Life & Death touched me deeply. It is written by Agnes Rodriguez. Agnes is a Focuser and Focusing Teacher and a psychologist born in Peru, living in Costa Rica. Agnes says she had  deep suffering in her life which she overcame by strong bonds with others. In Focusing, she says she is what you may call a “green shoot” trying to grow and eventually bloom. She does not have not a website yet but if you want more details you can go to www.cefocusing.com which is the website of her friend Kathy McGuire.  Agnes says that through Creative Edge Focusing she is able to reach areas in herself which she never imagined would exist. her edge.

Focusing.

I wrote to Agnes asking for her permission to share her poem saying:

Something has been touched very deeply in me by your poem. I’m not sure what yet…but I can feel some tender movement inside and I know it to be something “true” for me because when I sit near it tears well up from that place there. Now an image comes for those tears. Tears drawn from an inner well of cool, sweet water, my own well just for me, here in this body, in this life yet connected to the one great artesian basin of all.

And my body says “trust your tears”. They flow from and to truth. Your truth. Leona

On Life & Death

Agnes Rodriguez.

Considering life as a whole process

Within an environment

I  Am wondering from deep within

How could we preserve our lives?

Life is like a breeze…

It comes and goes…

We can not control it

As with an earthquake…

We do not know what will happen

But perhaps what we need to do

Is just accept the order of the universe

Which it seems looks for balance

Like the tectonic plates

Searching for equilibrium

No matter what we do about them.

Or a volcanic outburst

Which comes

When we do not expect it

Same with terrorism

Which appears in the most

Unexpected ways

Could we control it?

No…

It causes disaster

To our deep regret

But we cannot control it

Nor even neutralize it

With more terrorism

Perhaps we need to find the source

Of the disequilibrium…

And if we find it

Perhaps we may do something

About it

Terrorism as volcanic outburst

Trying to find balance

The volcano will not quiet itself

Until all the forces are settle

When there is harmony around.

Agnes