I Grew Without Sunlight

I grew without sunlight 

I grew with the pain 

I grew without love 

I grew with the abandonment 

I grew without a home 

I grew with the cotton 

I grew and I grew and I grew 

I grew so much, I even grew through you 

I grew without and without and without 

My body, ever so broken by the drought 

But through it all I still grew 

right into the Woman you never knew