Angels don't feel Emotions.
Instructions for a Feeling. How to become Emotionless.

To become completely Emotionless...Switch places with an Angel.
We somehow always compare the good, the kind and the benevolent acts in nature, to the emotions of angels.
But, angels do not feel emotions - they were created with the inability to judge based on feelings.
It is a well known fact, that angels envy us fragile beings the very thing that makes us human...
Emotions.
They crave that which we wish we could trade with them sometimes:
Happiness
Pain
Heartbreak
Feelings of Lost love.
I think though, they might skip right over
illness and hopelessness.
Angels don't grow old and die.
If only we could be a poem that feels like an instruction ritual, but without encouraging emotional suppression or harm. Instead, treat “becoming emotionless” as a symbolic shedding, a temporary shift in perspective - like stepping into an angel’s vantage point to see your own heart more clearly.
How to Become Emotionless
And...
(“Switch Places with an Angel”)**
1.
Stand at the threshold of your own imagination,
where the warm animal of you
meets the cold idea of you.
Do not cross yet.
Just listen.
2.
Unbutton your pulse.
Let it hang loose,
like a coat you might return to
when the weather of being human
grows too sharp.
3.
Call an angel - not by name,
but by posture.
Tilt your head as if hearing
a distant bell.
Open your palms
as if receiving snowfall
that never melts.
4.
When the air brightens,
step aside.
Let the angel try on your body
like a borrowed garment.
Watch how lightly they wear it,
how nothing clings.
5.
Now slip into their place.
It will feel like standing
in a room made of distant horizons.
Your thoughts will lose their edges.
Your grief will become a quiet bird
perched on a far branch.
6.
Do not stay long.
Angels are terrible at getting groceries,
paying rent, and remembering birthdays.
But for a moment,
let their stillness teach you
how to hold your heart
without squeezing it.
7.
When you return,
your emotions will greet you
like children who thought
you’d left forever -
loud, messy, relieved.
Let them climb into your
arms of acceptance.
Let them be yours again.
Let yourself and your very human emotions...
Be yours again.
About the Creator
Novel Allen
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.

Comments (4)
Winner! 🏅 I loved your descriptions Unbutton your pulse. Well done!
Would be crazy to swap places with an angel
Interesting take, Novel! Makes you think deeply imagining the swap and giving up your emotions.
Beautiful ❤️