Like Daddy

By Glenn Wagoner

I took my little laddie once,

And drew him to my knee,

And whispered to my little lad,

"Do you want to be like me?"

"Like Daddy," said my little lad,

"I'm gonna be like you."

I bowed my head in humbleness,

And suddenly I knew.

If my small boy would be like me,

There's one thing I must do,

The steps I take, the things I say

Had better all ring true.

As in the night I lay awake

While my wee lad slept on,

His words reechoed through my mind

Like some old haunting song.

"Like Daddy," that's the thought we need

To help to keep us straight,

Upon the way we fathers walk

Depends our children's fate.

Source:

Pulpit Helps, date unknown.