I'll Be Like You

To get his good-night kiss he stood beside my chair one night
And raised an eager face to me, a face with love alight.
And as I gathered him in my arms, the son God gave to me,
I thanked the lad for being good, and hoped he'd always be.

                                         His little arms crept `round my neck and then I heard him say
                                         Four simple words I can't forget...four words that made me pray.
                                         They turned a mirror on my soul, on secrets no one knew,
                                           They startled me, I hear them yet; he said... "I'll be like you".