Absent Mothers Quotes

“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What is it about me that made her leave?”
― Holly Throsby, Cedar Valley

“Places
Times
Weather
All these drew up my mother inside my thoughts,
Rain especially.
Falling past the trees, each drop throwing replicas into the air.
In the same manner my tears would fall from my face.
And so I searched for her in my dreams.
And watched her walk away from me in real life.
The anger in her eyes and her coldness that was who she was,
Yet she walked away from me in real life.
I knew this in the diminishment of my life..
Because she had been the nourishment of my life..
I don’t know if I was the one who packed my bags and left...
Or she was the one who left me.
But thoughts of her began fading from my mind
and I stopped looking for her in my dreams.”
― Ayanda Ngema, They Raped Me: So, Now What?