Wow, thank you so much for your attentive listening and for sharing your thoughts with me- it truly means a lot and as a self-taught composer this is how I am learning and improving! I admire your work immensely and take all of your feedback to heart. Regarding the nitpick (which I am grateful for!), that is actually exactly where I got stuck. I couldn't figure out where to go with the melody and had to rewrite it multiple times. I know that it resulted in an open-ended way but since melody is often important to my style of writing, I think that your suggestion of giving it shape and an endpoint is definitely something I need to focus on with every one of my melodies. Thank you for your comments!