Leilani SetyawanIn life‘Sweetheart, I heard from your friend that your ex has passed. I just got the news,’ I said, moving closer to him. I drew near, my heart…Oct 11Oct 11
Leilani SetyawanObviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13 year old girlBeing a woman feels like guilt when you have to compete with other women. It feels like regret when you have to put down other women to…Sep 16Sep 16
Leilani SetyawanBeing eaten alive and the desire to be consumedIn a world where humans fight so hard to avoid being eaten, I desire to be marinated and steamed, so that life might relish consuming me…Aug 21Aug 21
Leilani SetyawanTo live, to feel, to beLost in the labyrinth of being twenty, I wander aimlessly. My heart has been bruised by echoes of farewells and my spirit has scarred by…Aug 12Aug 12
Leilani SetyawanThe dance ends at dawnAcross a ballroom’s ethereal expanse, she emerged. Her hands, like fragile petals, danced through the air as if surrendering to life…Aug 4Aug 4
Leilani SetyawanGoing gentle into that good night“Oh, Mama,” she sighed, a twinkle in her eye as she fashioned a lunar world from paper, “I cannot wait to soar among the stars!” In mere…Jul 283Jul 283
Leilani SetyawanSaint & sinnerShe has the lineaments of a celestial body, cloaked in a virtue. The folks say her eyes are as innocent as the doe, never has seen the…Jul 21Jul 21
