Angel of Retribution

Everyone prays for the angelic savior to come and rescue them, to come and pull them out of the swamp that is slowly suffocating them and trying to make them free of all worldly worries once and for all. This angelic savior comes and saves us so that we continue to live in the world of greed, lust, sin…..the list never ends! Well I should make a point here, that my thoughts are partially inspired by the very famous music album with the same name as the title.

But somewhere down the lane there is a sure and a well anticipated transition in our mindset. The outcome of this transition are two sets of believers, the first set consists of believers who after being saved from the millions of evils haunting us all every single second, get used to the angelic savior to arrive on time every time. The second set consists of believers who are busy portraying a figure with partially burnt black wings, dressed in black attire that has red spots all over, with bloodshot eyes that seem to contain the energy of a thousand suns, standing tall holding a sword instead of a magic wand. They comfortably call this figure their angel, the angel of retribution. I personally believe all of us have an angel of retribution inside us, whom we have thrown in a dark corner inside us chained without food and water, running cowardly towards the angelic savior for help.

The angel of retribution is something that people in the second set of believers are searching for all their lives with many breathing their last without finding it. Some of them join the first set on their death beds and the rest resort to self-cursing for having believed in the angel of retribution and to have wasted time that could have otherwise been utilized to appease the angelic savior instead. But a very few among the set two believers succeed in finding the figure. These are people who have looked inside and were able to spot the otherwise invisible dark corner. These are people with true revolutionary traits and with fearless hearts, people who pass their time trying to feel fire with bare hands. These are people who change the world. Good or Bad is not the point of discussion here as none can be judgmental about the elite group of people who have finally deciphered the mystery of the angel of retribution and are now showing a way to the lesser beings.