I fell in love during my nineteenth year

But there was a complication

As Rosa was in love with another boy

Who like me worked on the building site

In time my rival began to notice

My affections towards his fiancée

He warned me to leave her alone

Which I did until his jealousy reappeared

I was threatened and told to leave the city

We exchanged blows and then he fell

This happened during the early hours

Before our site had opened its gates

I was not supposed to be there

As my mother was quite unwell

My rival fell three floors and died

Nobody knew that I had been there

My mother was sick and required my love

Although an accident my timing was perfect

My rival had been careless and had fallen

There were no witnesses present

After the observations of soft time

Rosa accepted my hand

We now have a son and daughter

I often watch them in our garden

Playing happily without many cares

But I still am haunted by my lies within