I have seen the Great Tree,
with branches splayed and white,
A lace of fruit and leaf.
I have seen The Child, soft
As sunlight skins of fruit,
Equal in size to hold.
I’ve seen men trade angels
And prophecy, for pride
And brutality.
I have traded gold
And country
For forest and family.
I have crossed dark seas
Of risk and possibility,
To lands of amber honeybees.
Faith has Sheparded me,
As courage does,
I hope faith to be my legacy,
The Faith to end.
Or be ended.
To follow spirit,
Through alley or wilderness.
To stand, to face, to trust in grace.
To endure to the end of time.
Lexie R. Kunz is a graduate at Utah State University with degrees in English and Communication Disorders. Lexie has been reading and daydreaming stories since she was 5-years old. She enjoys writing poetry and fiction, and her first attempts at poetry were inspired by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has been published in Edify Fiction, Sink Hollow Magazine, Red Fez Magazine, and Peacock Journal.
