AD - Air Plane Mode

Airplane mode:
the last gasp before the deluge.
Anti-Deluvian—
not “before the flood,”
but “against it.”
Like you’re not waiting for water—
you’re daring it to come. No signal.
No rescue.
Just the cabin lights flickering
like they’re scared of what you’re about to say. Anti-Deluvian means:
the engines are already drowned,
the wings are rusting mid-flight,
and you’re the only one
who still believes the sky
won’t swallow us whole. Turn it off—
and the flood doesn’t wait.
It just…
slides in through the vents,
cold, quiet,
like a lover who never learned to say goodbye. Anti-Deluvian:
the poetry of pretending
you’re not already underwater.
And airplane mode?
That’s the lie we tell
so we don’t have to scream.