Figuring Life and Hope


Figuring Life and Hope


I promise that you'll find hope when all is lost,
I promise that you'll find your soul when your heart is sick,
I promise that you'll find yourself when your path is blurred,
I promise you'll heal when things are dark,
I promise you'll be safe in my words and my dreams
©Sufi...18/7/18

I often find myself at the crossroads looking at my life. If I have really lived it, challenged it and savoured it. The realizations that I have had everyday isn't the most pleasant ones, I see a limbo, a pattern, a corner that I feel I have got stuck into. What if there is nothing to look forward to in life? Even though in the past 30 years, I have experimented, rebelled, fought and over came circumstances, I have gone through phases of anxiety or hopelessness and then on some days I have had all the inspirations in the world to take up new task and work through them. I have worried over money, security and livelihood then again I have left these worries and only lived as an independent artist and just created with all my heart.

I have been sensitive, supportive and a fool often to trust and believe in people and the world, surprisingly I have been amazed by it and disappointed by it all. I don't understand the chaos and the cause of why things are as they are? And why I am here? Somedays I have found the answers through a smile or through wonderful stories. But I have realized how I keep getting lost and how I struggle to find myself again and again in this world. Maybe life is about experiencing this and leaving everything for the empty spaces in the mind.

It takes a while then to get back hope and delve into your complexes. I wish I could have been in control of these moods and shoved them in a box and never looked back but that's what life is, you keep looking back and keep thinking about why's and why not's?  But today I promised myself that I'll keep working and creating no matter what, because I found some souls had found their peace in my creations. Maybe this is how we live on? And this is why we exist?

So keep creating and keep believing
Love
Sufia Khatoon

Illustrations and Paintings by Sufia Khatoon


Sufia Khatoon is an Editor, Translator, Author, Poet, Artist, Illustrator, Designer, Social Activist and Philanthropist,  Curator, PR and Event Manager.
Her Poems and short stories have been published in various National and International anthologies.
Her Bengali poem got featured in Tollywood Movie ANTOR SHOTTA recently.
She has Co-Founded Rhythm Divine Poets group initiating poetic movements globally.
She has received recently Amio Santa Award 2017 for her social efforts.
She is an Art Curator, Artist and Illustrator having exhibited her works in more than 20 group shows in reputed art galleries and widely appreciated for her solo show on Peace and Voices. She has illustrated International Poetry books of repute.
She is the owner of Sufi's Touch, a lifestyle designing brand that focuses on artistic products and recycling art.

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