O Friend, What is the Purpose?

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O Friend, What is the Purpose?

O Friend, what is the purpose of all these arrangements?
By what fault am I destined for annihilation?
Why then have You filled me with oceans of desire,
creating without necessity?

In my fourteenth year of life,
my existence resounds in fourteen ways!
Though all colors lie within me,
why then, in one home, is there such difference?

What hope resides in Your mind—what intention!
You, the Controller, know well the course of all.
You give me reason and wisdom, yet I am led astray!
I am but a servant, under Your sign.

If You are beside me, O bearer of sorrow,
why do I suffer in pain?
Everything is under Your command—within Your hands—
so why this boundless disobedience?

29 Shrabon, 1424 — D.C. Road, Chattogram