Daddy is only but a name until you become one,
Then your whole life lights up through a daughter or a son,
You never knew someone needed you so very much,
Until God put that little hand in little yours, and oh, the magic touch.

Like magic flooding through your heart and soul,
This little elfin child in your heart, your whole life you'll hold,
No matter the age, even until death knocks at your door,
This child will be on your mind, this child you'll e'er adore.

Will it cause you grief? Maybe or not, but all the same,
When your child needs you, you'll call out his name,
In awesome wonder, in joy, in fear you'll always know,
That what they do, or where this child goes, your heart will also go.

Be it girl or boy, or even both, it matters not, after all its your blood,
You'll worry if its a skinned knee or if there's tears to cause a flood.
The sweetness of a first step, or the first tryke it tried to ride,
Cant you feel the fear if your child falls and your heart aches inside?

That's what love is all about, to replenish the earth with its own,
Knowing one day this child will grow up and have his or her own home,
Knowing you'll walk together all this old life through,
But Lord in between; please show me all the things you'd have me do.

To teach my own child about Thee Lord, how to kneel and Pray,
Teach them to love their neighbor, each and every day,
All the joy in doing for others as you would have them do unto you,
And Lord, bring them on home to meet us when their day is through.

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