#Deliverance

Deliverance Prayer is the ritual incantation claiming to sever the chains of the mind. At an altar that echoes the soul’s cry, the practitioner offloads personal impotence onto mystical forces and gains a pretext to evade real-world responsibilities. Emotions caught between remorse and hope swirl as if to bind the supplicant tighter rather than free them. Ultimately, behind the sacred delegation to a deity lurks a fine print agreement that accrues endless indebtedness for every uttered petition.

Salvation is the one-way ticket out of the prison called suffering, sold at a premium with grand narratives attached. It is quickly repackaged into someone else’s sense of reassurance. The moment it is claimed, its efficacy is questioned by its owner—a very human trait. Sometimes it leaves only a meaningless token of comfort, like a talisman without magic.