I'd forgotten about it. Or rather, I thought I'd already missed it. 'Til I randomly saw an online article as I was about to go to bed. So here I am, a couple hours later, sitting, in bed, wrapped up in a blanket, watching the moon disappear. A total eclipse of the... moon. And what a bizarre event. Well, not really, if you analyze it from a scientific point of view and have all the facts. I can't help but wonder though what it would have been like if you didn't know. If you hadn't been warned of it. Imagine the ancients looking up into the night sky and seeing, to their dismay, the moon shrinking. A full moon paring itself down to a crescent and then, horror of horros, disappearing completely. And we can only hope it returns. Even now I can only see a sliver. The last remnant of something beautiful. A sliver of light and a reddish tinge, flickering as the clouds drift past. And that's all we get. Who knows what happens next. Who can say? Just wait. And there. The sun has failed.
The moon is dead.
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