Ode, to the Comma

Oh, comma, oh
you wondrous punctuation, you
emphasize my writing so,
so, readers can, understand
all the dramatic pauses, pause,
in my writing, in my life

Oh, comma, oh
how my English teachers hated you,
marking my essays in red,
'But!,' I would shout, 'Dickens, he,
thinks so highly, wait, of them too!'
in his writing, in his life

Oh, comma, oh
how underestimated you are,
our scribblings wouldn't mean much
without your hope, why, who wants
the, stop, fate of a period
in their writing, in their life?