I woke before dawn to find someone had left a beach campfire alight through the night.
As the sun rose over Barrenjoey Headland I was completely alone, but haunted somehow.
The flames kept trying to name the person who had lit them.
📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 3: Solitude
![A campfire blazes on the shore at dawn. The sun is about to rise above a distant headland.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/97469/2023/b3844d1afc.jpg)