The Pajaman

It's a funny thing when you realize you don't take things seriously---
enough
or as seriously as you should have been taking them all along

What with missed milestones
and understandings of smiles that you are newly familiar with

And it's all very lighthearted---
until they tug on your pants with concave eyes
and the intentions you used to unknowingly have yourself

And there---
in their one piece with covered toes
and with their own penultimatum
ask you in so many words---
Won't you take your shoes off?