ROSA ROSARIA

ROSA ROSARIA 
And she said:

What was I to do
Where was I to go
Back to * La Sila
To poverty
I could barely read or writ
No!I had two children to raise
I left my  family behind
Stranger in this strange place
No one else to cling to
 I let him do what he wanted to do
Go his way
He made my life a misery
But
Brought in the money
And
In the end
I could see
My brothers and sisters
Again
Here with me.

It is all behind me now
I was the first to die
To sleep alone  peacefully
Now and forever
Così sia *La Sila = The name of a mountain range in Calabria, Italy
Così sia = so be it