Should Have Stayed Dead

"Specimen online."

"Containment unstable."

Glass tank birth and surgical light

Spliced with the monster they learned to fight

Memories crawling under my skin

Echoes of where I’ve already been

Scalpels hum and engines wake

A corpse remade for profit’s sake

Spliced with a monster’s living thread

A queen is breathing in my head

They called it progress

They called it fate

But every resurrection

Comes too late

Should have stayed dead

A grave in the vacuum where the nightmare bled

You opened the coffin, you raised the thread

Some stories end better when they stay dead

Seven mistakes locked under flame

Seven reflections wearing my name

One begged mercy through shattered breath

I gave her silence, I gave her death

Burned the lab where the echoes cried

Charred every version that shouldn’t survive

Still feel the hive inside my head

A mother to monsters the future will dread

They called it progress

They called it fate

But every resurrection

Comes too late

Should have stayed dead

A grave in the vacuum where the nightmare bled

You opened the coffin, you raised the thread

Some stories end better when they stay dead

They call me mother, they call me kin

I feel their teeth beneath my skin

Not quite human, not quite hive

Just something wrong that stayed alive

Cloned from the marrow

Raised from decay

A parasite sequel

That won’t fade away

Hybrid screaming

Tearing the nest

Mother and monster

Failing the test

Blood burns steel

Vacuum spreads

Watch it collapse

Where it should’ve stayed dead

Should have stayed dead

Lost in the void where the final line said

You tore open endings already read

Some stories end best when they stay dead