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~The Answer WAS "NO"!~

DEDICATED TO MADISON SCOTT! This is for ALL THE LOST LIVES in Canada since my journey in discovering them all, after the fight I was also already so busy trying to survive! May this give us all some peace, closure and justice with the sound our voices and these words can give, that if I hadn't lived to write would otherwise have not been achieved! SO SAY IT LOUD and SAY IT PROUD, TOGETHER, EVERYWHERE, SAY IT WITH ME, SAY IT SO....THE ANSWER 'IS' NO! Amen!

By Jennifer CooleyPublished about 12 hours ago 7 min read
A Picture That Survived:'The Red head Girl' SWAMPED in a CAREER OF PAPERWORK!

Feb 3/26

The Answer Was “No!”

There’s nothing wrong with Love

Between a girl and a boy,

This is not a kind of love

I should have ever been denied,

Even from the young age of 5!

Fighting for my life

Just the right to love,

Should have never been the point

Of the quiz,

To all that there is!

From the state of view

Of someone so young,

How do you shed any light

On her point of view

In words,

Regarding all the memories

Of her witness

That no one else could see?

Clearly God IS REAL

Because of the difference of

The Monster,

‘Mammon’

And him,

That little girl

Couldn’t ever escape

No matter how many doors

Or homes she ran from,

It was a certain testimony

Of the only story

She’d ever be able to tell,

How can she separate herself

From hell?

That manipulation

All the coercion,

Oh yes

And those

7 Deadly SINS…

None of it

Was invited In!

The Soul of the Girl

And the heart

She carried too,

It was her own!

A fascination

In which

That Devil,

Could not

Eat his way through!

He could not dispel

The proof,

That LOVE IS REAL

And can’t be Lived without,

It’s not an option…

The child DID Shout

And with ‘my God’,

Shall my heart and soul remain!

And on and on and on

The years did pass,

As he would crouch

All about,

NO PAUSE

From HIS CAUSE

As she grew,

Saying

“Well then know it’s true,

That Everything Else

I WILL TAKE

From You!”

And so it’s true

Everywhere she went,

Every place

She laid her head…

No safety or comfort

Could be found!

No boy, No girl

No normal Love,

Did she ever find

In all the years she searched,

Writing stories and songs

Holding onto the hope,

Of True Love & Romance!

Over 50 yrs has now past

And as I lie here reflecting

On, that time…

The history I’ve never written about,

No right words could ever be laid

By pen to describe!

I’m only NOW

Able to share

A PORTION,

Of my early childhood nightmares

The graphics do not need to be shed,

I don’t need to re-live through

All the ‘NO’S

That I’ve said!

But it’s The Story Of My Life,

Not just a time or two…

There is No Excuse

For a little girl to live through

The story I never came to earth,

To Tell!

I’m only trying to say

That my message

Is simple for today,

Being able to write

About what still happens

To girls/Women/children everyday,

For voices from the graves

My words NOW SAVE…

Comes with lots of confusion

Despair and grief,

For the Devil true to his words

Could not STOP my life,

I’m STILL ALIVE

My Body IS HERE

And I am NOW…

Where the strength came from

To get me from the beginning,

To this end…

Is ALL ABOUT

The Heart and Soul

Inside that 5 yr old,

Whose faith and relationship

With her True God,

Simply Endured…

She told the Devil

‘Mammon’

Then,

What he could Win!

And today he’s witnessed

My lifetime witness

That it’s true,

He CAN’T DESTROY

The Man Maker…

He can’t STOP

Jehovah’s LOVE,

It’s a gift

Only he can give

So no matter what I’ve lost

From head to toe,

Or East to West

As I went from

Place to place

Trying to find my own home…

The Perfect Boy/Man

Who coming into my path

Could whisk me off my feet,

And rescue me into his arms

Well…

Somehow

I still managed to wake up

Day by Day, Get out of bed

Remain clear of all the victims

A part of Mammon’s Bloodshed,

Angels

Watching Over Me,

Was the only answer on how

I did not become

One of the numbers,

To those statistics!

So…

There is much to be said

About the value

Of just ONE SOUL,

To The God

Who ALWAYS remained WITH me,

His thoughts, my thoughts

His care,

As it shines down on me

Even in the distance,

Of those times

And how far I’ve come

Fighting off the Evil,

Like a Joan of Ark

Set in his armor,

From head to toe

That Spell…

Could never

Be broken,

THIS LOVE

IS…

THIS LOVE IS

What Spared MY LIFE!

So it’s understandable

Why I’m filled with,

All this Empty

Confusion;

Every single child

Every young adult,

Every ONE THAT’S DIED

DESERVES THEIR LIFE BACK!

And so I write

Share what I can,

Waiting for times End

To All of Our Stories,

And what will come to be?

Aerosmith words come to mind…

Janie’s Got a Gun

Her Whole Worlds

Come Undone,

What is she supposed to do

What did he put you through?

The Evil is so Insane

It plagues the brain,

Drives you insane

No rain,

Can STOP the Pain,

The tears have stained her face…

Where is there to run

No Safe House,

No Place

ABOVE the LAW,

To Avoid the WRATH

Of it all,

She can’t get an I.O.U.

For all that she’s been

Thru;

Because ‘nobody believes me

The Devil man IS SLEAZY’,

If it was only so easy

As to put a bullet in his brain,

But as time has already

Shown us…

There’s always another one

Around the corner,

To send someone down

A similar path,

To the one

I look back on

As I get THIS PART,

Of that journey

Finally written down;

About how little

Anyone ever cared

Nobody ever arrested,

No one went to jail

No-one sentenced to death

Where’s that electric chair,

Or how about castration

YUP,

ANY of THOSE

WOULD DO!

But at the end of this all

There’s only one thing

That can be said,

Don’t give up on living…

Fight for your right

To BE ALIVE,

LIKE I DID!

Stay out of rocking chairs

And hospitals too,

Take him down

With your faith

In God,

Pick up the bible

Read its words,

Pray to the Man Maker

And when he hears you,

Trust in his reply

Follow his guidance,

You will get to the next place

The right one,

For your journey!

Say it again and again

If you have to,

My friend

Say it…

The ANSWER IS ‘NO’

Shout it Out

On the Streets,

From rooftops

If you have too,

The ANSWER IS ‘NO’

But don’t let Anyone take

Your LOVE,

Your Heart and Soul

There is Always

Someone out there,

Somewhere

Someone to care,

So FIGHT

To find EACH OTHER;

This reward

Is the Greatest one

Of All!

For when you reach

Those arms,

And you can rest

From your run

You will have ‘WON’

And Broken the Spell…

Like the one I remember

From the beginning of

my Journey,

Of My 5 yr olds

Hell!

To not be a submissive

To not be a slave,

To not be sorry

For what ‘YOU’

Don’t understand

Devil man…

I don’t owe you any apologies

Or any explanations,

I was BORN FREE

In 1975

And in THIS MODERN DAY

IS WHERE I WILL RESIDE,

Until my dying day

I WILL CELEBRATE,

My Rights

My Choices,

And the GOD I CHOOSE

To Follow and testify of Knowing,

But I don’t make

Your beds,

Or feed you food

And clean your homes,

Take Care of every need

Of everyone under that roof

For Free,

(Indeed that’s not for the likes of me!)

As if it’s my only purpose?

I’m not a help mate

I’m a HUMAN,

BEING….

A WOMAN

One Looking to Be LOVED

By a Man;

Someone who knows

To respect me,

And treat me as

His equal,

We help support

And encourage

Each others work,

Dreams

And aspirations!

So I may be sad

About the damage done

And the time lost,

But the Power

GAINED

From the knowledge

EARNED,

Has given ME a Life

That you can ONLY

Understand and Enjoy,

If you’ve DONE

THE WORK,

To Get There…

So ENJOY IT!

Now LET IT BE HEARD

For ALL of OUR VOICES,

From both sides of the veil

Around the Deaths,

That THIS IS WHAT I’LL DO

Leaving behind

ALL THREATS from YOU,

‘SINNER’ Man!

Love is the Key

And there’s NO FEAR IN THIS

Only a door to other paths,

Where GREAT is YOUR LIFE

To which it CAN EXPAND…

Because of Knowing

WHOSE LEAD

TO FOLLOW!

‘No Pain, No Gain’,

There’s Nothing Left

To Explain.

So I end in Prayer

Amen for ALL,

And that I too will find

What I deserve

Like I hope, for all of you,

As the World turns

And life continues on…

As we wait for all the answers

From God to come!

Oh,

And if I should get

That Valentine & Mistletoe Kiss

One Day,

I’ll be sure to write

Another story of

That times Glory,

For when all that waiting

Finally comes thru…

When I CAN SAY ‘YES’,

“YES, YES, YES, YES…

Because,

I WANT IT TOO! 🙂

So Sinner Man

Let it be Heard,

ON THIS DAY

LOUD AND CLEAR.

My Final Thought

And message true,

IS

SIMPLY…

That the ANSWER WAS

‘NO’!

To You!

The End!

Written in the pen name,

Of Jennifer Cooley!

In honor of the memory of the girls who’ve never lived to this day and these words get written and for the girl once known

As (‘Lady’) Jennifer Suzanne Norfolk!

(DOB Jan 18/1975)

(Date of Death Unknown still!)

May These Words Give every one of them some Rest and Peace!

Amen, and Amen!

ChildhoodEmbarrassmentHumanitySecretsStream of ConsciousnessTeenage yearsTaboo

About the Creator

Jennifer Cooley

I've been writing as long as I could hold a crayon! Remember writing my first story like it was yesterday at 5. I remember the details of the day, location, time, excitement & where the story was preserved for all time! Lots Born From That!

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