Nobody Special Poet Free verse

The Repeating Cycle of Life

again
FWASHOOOPPPPP
the annoying people in the room
suddenly
disappear
it is peaceful
for about
2 seconds
but then
a laser beam shoots out of the sky
i know everyone is wondering ‘What?’
many people start to panic
but i know that's just a simple
part
of
time
and
space
some species come
some go
some
dominate,
destroy,
desolate,
demand,
decay,
and
sometimes,
just sometimes,
one
small
tiny
thing
begins the cycle
all 
over

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Alison A Smith September 22, 2026 at 3:07 AM The poem’s playful opening sound effect quickly opens into something vast and philosophical. Its staggered free-verse layout slows the reader at key moments—especially through “time / and / space” and the final descent into “all / over”—giving the cycle of emergence, destruction, and renewal a strong visual as well as thematic force.