On Seeing a Dead Snake

Snakes don't close their eyelids 'Coz snakes can't close their eyelids. Fused, the eyelids keep the eyes open From birth to postmortem. Perhaps, as the rest of the body rots away, The eyeballs would lie there forever, Twinkling like forlorn stars.

Scared of the vacant look of death,we Scramble to pull down our dead's eyelids. Perhaps, if we didn't, they would light up stars In somebody else's eyes...