13 Quotes by Tapiwa Mugabe

You do not bring the ocean to a river.

You are Oceanic All she wanted was to find a place to stretch her bones. A place to lengthen her smiles and spread her hair. A place where her legs could walk without cutting and bruising. A place unchained. She was born out of ocean breath. I reminded her; ‘Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no room for themselves. Do not thin yourself. Be vast. You do not bring the ocean to a river’.

Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no room for themselves.

I am the hunger in a lion’s growl. I am heavy with desire, my heartbeat has slowed down. All I want is a good fire.

She She wears humble in her voice like a quarter moon veiled by night sky. Water is smooth and strong. She is burning with flowers. She has a mind that makes an idiot of genius. A day-moon, a star eating sky, eating morning. My eyes are held at attention by the beauty swimming across her face. My mind is an altar to her.

You learnt it was human not womanly to cry. And.

Today I wear my mother in my voice, I am clothed in her. I wear my sisters in my thinking, my grandmother in my bone, in my soul. I.

You’re afraid to tell her you miss her in case it sounds like you love her more than she loves you. And.

You were born to be remembered, not missed. Being missed means you eat up people’s memory leaving them full of you but empty of themselves.