When will we get the time to pass through the canal, or rather, where shall we spend our time? To whom shall we plead, and where shall we go to call?

This poignant couplet captures the profound exhaustion of the soul. The speaker asks a rhetorical question: when will this continuous crying and complaining cease? And to whom, or where, can one even turn with a cry for help? It speaks to a state of deep despair, where the burden of grief becomes too heavy to bear, leaving one utterly lost and abandoned.