Let Them Say

When I fade away let them say I lived
Let them say I had a father whom I could not forgive
Let them say I lived in the days when women loved women
Let them say I lived in a time when Love was called sin
Let them say I lived a time when a man could marry a man
Let them say I say I lived in a time the present doesn’t understand
Let them say I lived in the wrong time
Let them say I lived in a time where poets didn’t rhyme
Let them say I lived in a time where God wasn’t real
Let them say I lived in a time where what we felt was real
Let them say I lived in the time of Hell
And left the world with a story I didn’t want to tell