The poetry of being four years old

I did a photoshoot for this family, and their little girl was someone who gave me tremendous satisfaction as a photographer because she was so unapologetically who she was.

The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold
Of being only four years old.
Still young enough to be a part
Of Nature's great impulsive heart,
Born comrade of bird, beast and tree
And unselfconscious as the bee
And yet with lovely reason skilled
Each day new paradise to build
Elate explorer of each sense,
Without dismay, without pretense!
In your unstained transparent eyes
There is no conscience, no surprise:
Life's queer conundrums you accept,
Your strange Divinity still kept. . . .
And Life, that sets all things in rhyme,
May make you poet, too, in time -
But there were days, O tender elf,
When you were Poetry itself!

~Christopher Morley