Aerophobia
silence
true silence is rarely experienced by the weak
only by the wise and never by the brave
can silence be not only experienced but achieved
the white noise of the airplane
fills the user with an uncomfortable calm
looking around and seeing all the other passengers
simultaneously leaning their heads back and blankly staring forward
the only interruption being the *ding* from the flight attendant
or the occasional pilot announcement
the uncomfortable calm
allows them to
sit back
relax
and enjoy the flight
along with all the other passengers
with their headphones in
eyes gray
ears filled by the deilluminating white noise
who is your pilot
who will you allow him to be
how could you allow yourself the illusion of the choice in thinking that you can choose your own pilot
Autonomy was never real
So is god your pilot?
Or perhaps a stranger
Maybe your mother
Autonomy was never real
Father
Sister
Friend
Or will you hijack the plane
And be the maker of your own existence
With a great risk of fatality
Much more than if you allowed god to be your pilot
Was Autonomy ever real
Many often believe they are in silence
But really, they have just adjusted their frequencies
To ignore any stimulus
Any instruction
Any love
Any hatred
Any care
Living their lives as if they were on a plane
Where there is nothing to do but exist
Oh to be non-autonomous
To have every thought be blurry
Every face be like the other
Every conversation like the last
Working so hard but never earning a dollar
Saying I love you but never meaning it
Playing escapism like its a toy
Allowing everything around you to move forward
Feeling both everything and nothing
Being both overstimulated and understimulated
Focused and dazed
Its friday hooray!
But you thought it was Tuesday
Being enamored by nothing
But being eaten alive by everything
Prey and predator
High and low
Dried or alive
In the air or on the ground
Unable to do anything besides exist
I think we should all be afraid of flying