Embers and ashes

My heart pounds with fear. He is lying asleep next to me, I look over and smile, but the aching in my chest does not disappear. Because though half of my heart lies in the arms of someone fast asleep, the other half is still in California. Only two miles, only two miles of forest between the fires and I. Malicious creatures, its thirst is never sated. Its hunger is beastial, savage, and so feirce like a lion ripping entrails pouring hot blood just pumped by your heart only seconds ago. Oh how I wish I could bend space-time to go back for just one second. And danny, he must be exhausted, fighting, fighting, fighting. Fighting endlessly with a raging force of nature.

I cannot go back to sleep.