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Oct 2021 · 699
Are you being liked?
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Some will like you

others, perhaps not

if you like yourself- you can keep

everyone else from your thought
Oct 2021 · 604
The Limit
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
If I should want

let it not exceed

the number of fingers

on my one hand
Oct 2021 · 245
Insight
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I see better

when I walk away

from the self

I was yesterday
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Join me in the dance

with fulness of soul and heart

to last beyond time
Oct 2021 · 229
Openness
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I am neither

pro nor con

either leads me nowhere

only openness I stand upon
Oct 2021 · 200
Perchance
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Though I'm walking away

in my heart you I will yet bear

perchance we'll meet again in some day

you'll still find me the same there
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Lone sunset figure

walking home after the plough

watched by sky and trees
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I was there

here I am now

nothing has changed

no 'somehow'



but the heart's purity

to which I bow

love draws us closer

l'll never let you down
*. this is a true story. The couple's photo appeared in Linkedin. They are young.
She was very beautiful as shown in the photo before the accident. The young man is handsome. When we truly love, nothing will ever stand in our way. It's the whole person we love, not just his or her look.  I am deeply touched by their story and wish them every happiness.
Oct 2021 · 255
Desideratum
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Sometimes I don't need

either wine, coffee or tea

I just want to lie down

and enjoy being just me
Oct 2021 · 192
The Taoist Wu-Wei
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Don't struggle, be supple

know your limits, be humble

you succeed in bending

without any fighting

so passive is water

when it strikes--everything it does conquer
Oct 2021 · 192
Admonition
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
You can walk away  

  it's not too late

  lest this friendship

   you later regret
Oct 2021 · 213
Reaching Out
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Before I can reach out to others

I must be able to reach within me

the foundation must precede the building

only this will make for my credulity
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Simplify, simplify, simplify

don't take life or yourself too seriously

you don't need wisdom to acquire happiness

trust yourself and believe the universe is not against you

you need people--be kind to all

cultivate love, compassion, humility, contentment and gratitude

accept life has joy and also sorrow

embrace all things noble and beautiful

embrace humour and live in the moment
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
The past is a dream
memories are carried in the river
ah, love where are you?
why do you still wander?

Soon night will set in
my heart loneliness will cover
by the water I stand in reverie lost
I am the unrequited lover.
Oct 2021 · 169
Desideratum
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
We should be light and empty.

Isn't death so much relief in its nothingness?

Because I love life, death to me is only a metaphor
Oct 2021 · 206
I in Time
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
......but I am into the moment and don't think whether I am happy or not--- happiness is but a word-- meaning is found in my engagement with what's required of me by the moment.  I enjoy doing 'my thing', in my silence, unnoticed---it's just me in deepest absorption--time I forget, even my self.

If I have applied my best, in honesty and earnestly,  perhaps I would realise that state but I don't go around seeking the elusive happiness
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
The heart is woodland

deepest mysteries it holds

it sings and it weeps
Oct 2021 · 193
Liebesleid
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
It would be a lie
if I were to promise
what I can't give-

would that be love
or but a sham
a blemished gift?

My words would never fit--
but none of us does any wrong
neither do we need to forgive-

cast in fate's unyielding stone
are these words: ' Love is illusive-
remember as long as you live'.
Oct 2021 · 129
Meditation
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
In meditation

my being is anchored

upon emptiness

which contains all that is needed
Oct 2021 · 180
Cleavage
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
It's most worrying

when words begin

to betray or distort

the mind's intended meaning
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I've slept too long

      no more the slumber

      life's next song

      is springing to my ear--



      beauty will never do any wrong

      as bouquets of wonder she sets to gather

      with love and rejoicing in music's throng

      life doesn't die--it will live forever
Oct 2021 · 170
Oh, No! (After Mark Twain)
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
About others we can sometimes be curious

but we should never be life-detectives -that's odious!
Oct 2021 · 174
I Wonder Why I Wondered
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I wondered first as a child

I next wondered when I came to my youth

I wondered further in my middle-age

life was with me but it didn't often soothe



and now in my dying days

I wonder why I should have wondered

should have left behind the rude lacuna--

much of life borders upon the absurd
Oct 2021 · 165
Our Human Condition
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
The doctor knows his medicine

but the heart he can't heal

life is hardly about reason

infinitely more about how to feel.
Oct 2021 · 160
Self-Portrait
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I am not out (truthfully)

for the trophy

that would indeed be

a ****** part of me
Oct 2021 · 174
What I Only Am
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Do not seek in me

your image of what I am

I have flaws too many

for me to deny would be a sham-



come then, if me you can accept

come of your own free will, I should not implore

such that we would neither have cause to regret

and will cherish our affection more, much, much more
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Do you remember
do you remember
that autumn day
when we first met
faraway by the gentle lake?

still was the water
silent were the trees
to me was your whisper:
I'll not forget
today's tender splendour
stay, oh stay
it's not sunset yet...

Now all alone
the lake is a reminder
of the day you've chosen
not to remember

yet I look
at the silent water
and your face
still does appear---

I'll walk away
and learn
not to remember
Oct 2021 · 88
Where I Belong
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I go to a quiet and secluded corner every day-
I need the calm space to renew myself:

I walk out of myself.
I forget time.
I dream and imagine.
I think I'm with the clouds.
I hear the rustling leaves.
I feel the breezes drifting by.
I am still.
I want to be empty.

In the silent peace
my weariness fades away.

This is my 'prayer'
my blissful hour
where I truly belong.
Oct 2021 · 232
Cul-de-sac
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
The cul-de-sac indeed taught me

much more than the wide-open thoroughfare

I'm infinitely grateful for the experience

that I acquired when I was there
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Night is loathed to speak

secrets it has too many

it will share with none
Oct 2021 · 122
Conundrum
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Some say life has meaning

others say there's none

I hardly know anything

I will just do what gives me fun
Oct 2021 · 139
Last Droplets of Time
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
At the last droplets of time

I would still try to smile

a passer-by, a sojourner

who has stayed for just a while.



At the last droplets of time

to me the past would whisper:

we met once before

after this, never again--never.



At the last droplets of time

beauty, love, joy, sorrow would bid me good-bye

but tears I would not shed nor my life regret

at the hour of sweet surrender It's a good time to die.



At the last droplets of time

from the distant hill a song shall drift to me

soft, gentle, rapturous, tender- my heart shall rest

peacefully and I'll readily embrace the great mystery.
Oct 2021 · 138
O World so sad
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
O world, o world,
O world so sad*
yet I will partake
of your sorrow
wherever I am
wherever I go
on my very skin
and soul
you hold to
and grow-

when my life's over
I will come to know
life is an illusion
a mere shadow
presaging
a path I must follow
leading to the Grand Unknown
the end of every suffering
and sorrow-

the mystery
will then be lifted
light will show

I will be there-
I am sure
* from a poem...I love you, love you, love you, O world so sad
Oct 2021 · 147
Existence
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
So often

all the light outside

is blotted out

by the heart's darkness inside
Oct 2021 · 123
Tragedy
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
........but even courage wavers

love is sometimes fearful of its own shadows

        the heart lives in doubt of its purity

this is the very tragedy of humanity
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Before you can become

     you'd need to embrace

     and live within the Calm-



    reason has no answer

    the heart tends to wander

    without the Stillness, you'd falter-



    the self and desires must die

    nothingness is the door to bliss

    we are each but a shadow that passes by
Oct 2021 · 118
Life's Lesson
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
We are diminished never

by our any mistake

each does abundantly deliver

a valuable lesson for our take
Oct 2021 · 146
The Past
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
The past   etched in time's memory

engraved in my mind-scape  

     faces     places

colours.   sounds    smells.   moments



undercurrents of emotions

of feelings

of images

glimpses of joy  

    of sorrow

of laughter

of tears

of love

of tenderness

of resolutions

of doubts

of regrets

of remorse

of loneliness

of what had been

  or could have been

everything had evaporated like dreams



but all seems so dim now     neural debris  

weakening dendrites

the past is but shadows.      an illusion

  a shadow-play  



the essence was then --

most memories have vanished or faded

at the present hour

the past      what are its uses  ?

what are its abuses ?



time measures all          swallows all  



it takes no sides         neither as a friend or foe



the past  I was  

the present I am

the future I don't know
Oct 2021 · 103
Aloneness
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
...but don't chide me

   for choosing to be alone

   amidst life's cacophony

   I risk losing my own-



  none shall rob my liberty

  in solitude, seeds of joy I've sown

  closer to understanding life's mystery

  all my doubts and sorrows are gone
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
I will join you

in laughter

the sky is blue

beautiful is the weather-



lend me your hand

we will walk together

through life's smiling land

in love, joy and wonder
Oct 2021 · 108
Silence
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
My shut-up hours

2 to 4 pm

sitting in my garden

being just what I am
Oct 2021 · 513
Jest
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life is neither 'no' or 'yes'
most parts are just jest
Oct 2021 · 139
Story-telling
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Life is story-telling

but our good parts we exaggerate

oblivious to our bad

fiction we cleverly create
Oct 2021 · 207
The Light of Life
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Death can wait

life is beckoning

I must celebrate
Oct 2021 · 161
The Parting
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
For several thousand miles
we have travelled together
in the finest and roughest of days
we never doubted each other--

but now you have changed you mind
and a new path you want me to follow
that's not what my heart will consent to
we must part, much to our sorrow
Oct 2021 · 98
A Random Thought
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Don't break

create instead
Oct 2021 · 127
Trusting
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Trust, by all means

but wisely--

many lives have been ruined

by trusting implicitly
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
A dream within a dream, beyond the fondest dream

setting sun sheds its fading light on the silent stream

a gentle mist hovers over the silent trees

how calmly drifts the evening breeze



for my love my heart is waiting

my dream she will soon be fulfilling
Oct 2021 · 137
A Perpetual Lacuna
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
What is false?

what is true?

what law, what clause?

is someone misleading me and you?
Oct 2021 · 141
In Response to Jeff Bezos
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2021
Dear Jeff,

I am a Zen person---I force nothing on myself---
it's the opposite, I aim at being empty---
in that emptiness, I am set free-
what is and what I am merge in oneness--
the doubts disperse and clarity, calmness and joy flood my heart.

In such a moment,  I become the 'richest' person in the world
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