One Last Prayer

1 · Moataz Abdelnasser · Dec. 10, 2021, midnight
It was an enormous, round, flaming object that I saw approaching through the mist of the bright blue sky. Vaguely perceivable as a partially visible, gibbous moon on fire, with its semi-molten crust almost retaining its dark grey color despite the blaze, the figure seemed to get larger although in a manner that could only be felt rather than perceived. Gazing at it through one of the two narrow, vertically oblong windows in my room, it came to my awareness, as if by some form of recollection or ...