Chris Schleier, Jr. Poems

I am fire, feel me burn!

I am passion, flames I churn!
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Sisters of worth: Beacons from birth!
Gospel desires: Latter-day fires!

Sisters of Zion, stand as a lion
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Loyalty is where the heart is
in eternal lengths and depths.
Bound in love, and sealed in courage
by supernal covenants.
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The first recognition began a tradition

of love
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Faith is doing.
Faith demands.
Faith is knowing.
Faith commands.
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I never quite have met a man

like Brother Barron Smith.
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The best is yet to come to pass;

Yet, each and every day
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Wond'ring where my dreams had gone

I traveled lonely on my way.
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The times of life of change and chance
have never been a passing glance.
And, even though I never know
what pain may come, it sounds the drum.
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I've never known a thing to be

so close to me as family:
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