Contributor: Richard Schnap

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Look at the sun
Bringing you a brilliance
You can never dream of

Listen to the rain
Its music is more melancholic
Than the world’s saddest song

Feel the wind
Its caress carries a touch
No lover can ever match

Smell the flowers
Their perfume can seduce
The heart of any man

All of these things
Are given without
Any hint of a price

And will remain so
No matter the cost
It takes to stay alive


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Richard Schnap is a poet, songwriter and collagist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A two-time Best of the Net nominee, his poems have most recently appeared locally, nationally and overseas in a variety of print and online publications. His debut chapbook, "A Wind From Nowhere", is available from Flutter Press.