RE: Midnight Letters Prompt #16: Let's write a LOVE POEM for the Night

Hi, I found a lot to unpack in your poem. Certainly themes of labor, family, resilience, and intimacy. The imagery of coal and transformation was powerful. The use of faces and hands evoking generational cycles—resignation, longing, promises made and broken. Your poem depicts desire as a delicate force, intertwined with hardship. The sombre tone of the first part sets up the tension of the passionate second part nicely.