The Right To Love

My love and I ask little of the world

The right to sigh together in the rain

And walk with heads up in the sun

And share our joy and our pain

And yet they said that we were wrong

We hadn't the right to our love

That this love was shameful to see

And yet we treasured our love

And so we go our solitary way

Indifferent to the cold unfriendly stares

Indifferent to the whispered talk

We don't care at all

We have all we need

As long as we can be together

We find our consolation in each other's eyes

That sweet look of wonder

We know we have earned the right to love

We know that we have earned

That precious right to love