(Correction: This story was updated and edited to correct an inaccuracy. Cassie Phillips, 32, the author of the poem "Let Them," was misidentified as another person with the same name.) This week ...

“I got a 5-year-old little boy who’s growing up in a crazy world right now. It’s like, ‘Man, just let ’em be kids. Let them be little.

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...