The Right to Love

My love and I ask little of the world The right to sigh together in the rain And walk with hands up in the sun And share our joys and our pains And yet they say that we were wrong That 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 The sweet look of wonder We know that we have earned the precious right to love