Coma/Comma

As a child In grammar school I wondered if a comma is Any similar to a coma, As an adult Having watched my father ride that frozen black bull too slowly into that Goodnight moon Without elegance nobility Or at very least swiftness I see that each is so much like a pause, such a serpentine suspension in the baffling beauty of life or whatever God has named our passages That I live in fear Of ever using a period Again.