Plains and Punctuation

The flat expanse of trees

A run-on sentence in a paragraph already

Too lengthy to keep the reader’s attention.

No rise and fall, steady and sure.

Punctuated

With birds that circle in endless cycles.

“There is no point of leaving,”

They caw

“The only movement to make

Is to inch forward until death.”

But in the story of my life,

I crave the crescendo of the hill and

The unrivaled glory of the downhill denouement.

Let me not lurch to my end,

But may I toil and burn, yearning for more

Until the very last page.