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2.0k · Dec 2019
Emptiness
Erik Luo Dec 2019
Emptiness
Lives in nothingness
Yet it has the imagination
To become anything

It can expand infinitely
Into all directions
It can exist eternity
Without losing a breath

It wants to know itself
So it even started to be

Sometimes it understands
The pain and suffering of existing
Sometimes it laughs at itself
For believing in the dream it created

It may have all the colors
And maybe it knows more
than what you and I can comprehend
But deep down it knows
The existence of all and nothing
The happiest and saddest moments
of our lives and times

What is here
is emptiness
And what will be
is also emptiness
You can say it is not bound by time
or it was the one created time in the first place

So perhaps
We are empty
Because we are emptiness
And searching for love
To feel the emptiness more deeply

However
The emptiness knows
That even the sweetest love can have pain
And in the greatest pain there is love
So it just gives up
And become a song full of existence
As we danced to our death
It laughed
And started, the next dream
1.3k · Mar 2021
Singing rain
Erik Luo Mar 2021
Slow walking
in the street
with the rain
singing my praise

not for my joy
nor my sadness
but only to prove
my existence
889 · Feb 2021
The sea of dreams
Erik Luo Feb 2021
Lonesome days
drifting away
into this dream
forever it seems

like the waves
in love and pain
half asleep
half awake
843 · Mar 2021
A lonely refrain
Erik Luo Mar 2021
Fading away
As a lonely refrain
into nothing...
into being...
into you...
809 · Mar 2021
To the waves
Erik Luo Mar 2021
Giving away
My heart's pain
To the wind 
and the sea...

To let them sway
the echos of my remain
as I give myself
to the waves
792 · Jun 2022
Love is
Erik Luo Jun 2022
Love  
Is a word  
With too many definitions 

Too many implications   
Too little imperfections 

What is there to say  
But love without words  
Like strings without end  
Or rain without clouds 

This  
Without you  
Without me  
Without love

This is also love   
In truth

This   
Time and space  
Filled with being  
Of the wordless word  
The loveless love  
The dreamless dream  
The pathless path

God   
is within 

Love   
Is...
722 · Feb 2021
Sorrowful art
Erik Luo Feb 2021
Dreaming, alone
in the dark
sitting,
in a pool
of my sorrowful art
thinking about
the last moments I had
as I slowly
opened my heart
551 · Dec 2020
Lighthouse
Erik Luo Dec 2020
The lighthouse on the shore
Shed light on the source
Of the beauty and power
In that waves and thunder

I stood before the storm
Hearing the thud and claps
A sound so familiar
Yet filled, with unknown horror

I saw the dark shadows
As they crashed on the shore
Breaking my body
And dissolving my words

Once again I tried
To let go of the water
Only to leave nothing
As I become the shore

Hitting by the water
Through the calms and anger
As I keep the lighthouse
Standing
in this beautiful horror
Forever...
465 · Aug 2020
Thank you
Erik Luo Aug 2020
Maybe I loved you
But is time to go
The beautiful life is waiting
And I hope you can find it too

The struggles and pain
of our story
is there for a reason
I know

The being of my love
is there forevermore
Waiting
But my body can't be here, aching
anymore

So it's time to go
On this journey
And let life guide me
Through it all

I think I still love you
But I no longer think about you
I'm not over this
But I need to go

Stay true my love
For you are strong and enough
I'm sure you will find
Yourself and love

Maybe one day we will meet
Again but without any pain
Then perhaps I can give you a hug
And thank you
for all that you gave me
God I love writing, feels so good, let me know if it resonates. Take care.
464 · Dec 2019
I can see in the dark
Erik Luo Dec 2019
I can see in the dark
After some minutes of silence
What was pitch black
Is filled with silhouettes

It happens often
When we enter the dark
At first we can’t see
But slowly we are used to it

To see clearly
We must not scream in fear
Or pain

To be
And surrender
To the darkness
That is
Then we can see
Even in the dark
For we know
That our eyes are nothing
But a mirror
Of what we perceive
And what we are

I can see in the dark
Can you?
448 · Oct 2020
Sunflower bud
Erik Luo Oct 2020
Sunflower bud
Dreaming asleep
Looking at you
To see all the things
That you loved
like the sun
And grew
to its
awakening
387 · Feb 2021
Flowering
Erik Luo Feb 2021
Lonely flowers
Growing, with laughter
Each petal, dancing
one after another
like the children
they're running with laughter
but soon they'll cry
soon they'll cry...
359 · Feb 2021
The loving blue
Erik Luo Feb 2021
For so long
I looked to the moon
To see the blue
filling my mood

For so long
I dreamed of the stars
all shining with hope
in the dark

For so long
I laughed at the sky
to the clouds at night
covering my eyes

For so long
I longed for the night
with every breath, I felt
the loving blue
348 · Feb 2021
Endless Poetry
Erik Luo Feb 2021
Dreaming
in a dream
about all these
love and pain

an endless
poetry
written
with you and me...
340 · Jan 2021
To you, my lonely self
Erik Luo Jan 2021
No matter what happens
I’m here with you
Until the moment you die
And then we become one

You’ve seen the ending
Of this infinite story
So know that I will always love you
No matter what you do

The life you have is a gift
From me to you made with love
Everything you experience is this,
A form of my love to you

The pain and the joy
The sadness and the love
All the bitterest and sweetest moments
Are all me giving you the love I have

So enjoy it
Be aware of this love
For I am always in you
And you are me...

I love you
Heard this one when I was brushing my teeth.
325 · Dec 2019
The wind and the waves
Erik Luo Dec 2019
You and I
are like the wind and the waves
One pushes, one flows
Creating ripples
That bend the light
Into the cycle that called life

Sometimes gentle
Sometimes harsh
Sometimes with leaves
Sinking under the surface

In a lake
or a river
or the sea
we danced and loved
through lows and highs

You are invisible
but you make me wave with love
Until I flip under and over
Nowhere to hide

We create and destroy
We hug, and we fight
In every second
United and separated at once

So perhaps is alright
For without you I can’t survive
As when the wind stops
The wave too dies
313 · Dec 2019
Reality is a circle
Erik Luo Dec 2019
Reality is a circle
It is infinitely long
and always round
Ending where it begins

We are all running on it
Towards what we think
as the direction of faith
But ends up meeting our own selves
in the direction we oppose

The circle is a being
Full of tricks and games
And as we walk down to rest
We are trapped inside

Until we run so far
That we see our selves
Weeping or dying
On the street

And what’s real
Might become fake
Reality
Might become a dream

Like a circle
Ending where it begins
Until we pushed so hard
That we fall under it
And become
A mirror
Of a reality
Which the circle lives
313 · Oct 2020
Lotus in the rain
Erik Luo Oct 2020
You are like
a lotus in the rain
standing, under the grey sky

but still, your shine is so bright
soaking in,
every drop of pain

and turned them into
the love,
that fuels
your flowering
You are so beautiful
307 · Oct 2020
Cloudburst
Erik Luo Oct 2020
The sky
is crying
The clouds,
singing

About
that pain
Before
Love
293 · Oct 2020
Cherry blossoms
Erik Luo Oct 2020
Cherry blossoms
Fleeting moments
Raining grace
With the wind

Singing about
existence
And dying
in acceptance
Impermanence
281 · Nov 2020
Dune
Erik Luo Nov 2020
It has been a long time
Since I last saw you
But the essence of this flame
Still burns so bright

To the shadow of that moonlight
The wind whispered at their sight
Speaking about a mystery
So far removed from the truth

I began to feel the sand
Of all the grains and pebbles
Only few could fit my hand
Without fleeting away

Once again I sit
At the crossroad of faith
To be consumed by the wind
And disappear into the night

Oh how I longed
For that night
And the sky
Hugging the land

Maybe we shall meet again
As the wind meets sand
Flowing and waving
In time...
280 · Jan 2021
Scream
Erik Luo Jan 2021
Screaming
in the rain
To the voices
of the wind
It’s singing
about the pain
That I left
in my dream
Took a short break from writing. Now I’m back. Heard this one in a dream few days ago.
273 · Sep 2020
The gold in you
Erik Luo Sep 2020
I shall speak to you about that gold
That you held deep inside without being told
It is there since you were born
And it grows every day through your hurt

What really matters
Is not what you have
But what you are
What you choose to be

It takes great awareness
Often through deep pain and sadness
To have the amount of self-knowledge
To be able to love existence

It is a beautiful paradox
That which makes you the most whole
Are all the scars that you have gone through
It defines your essence and completes your soul

I see myself in you
It is so beautiful
And I love you
For your existence

What determines our worthiness
Is nothing but the choice
Of great love and acceptance
Of the beauty in your existence

For that is enough
The taste of your presence
The scent of your being
And the sound of your soul

That’s all I need
You are worthy of everything
240 · Sep 2020
A requiem of surrender
Erik Luo Sep 2020
Lying in this silent pain
Hearing the words of that navel chain
Words forming in a swing
Making me surrender all my dreams

I said to you
What is this feeling
As I fall more and more into
You and you and you and you...

And me and me and me and me...
Like a cycle it repeats
Singing and talking and cursing and yelling
And crying and laughing and coughing and screaming
And touching and holding and gripping and pushing
And cutting and hugging and kissing and loving
And into others senses, that are foreign and without names

It’s like falling and falling and falling and falling...
And flying and flying and flying and flying...
Forever
And all of this
Forming those tiny but infinite points
Of existence and reality
Of experience and identity

I surrendered more and more
As I became it
All these pain
All these love
All these beings
And I heard that song reached an end
As I gave up all of me
I died and became
Nothing...
Love
235 · Oct 2020
Dancing shadows
Erik Luo Oct 2020
The slow dancing shadows
Reaching, for each other’s arm
Holding onto
The taste
of love

In a fleeting moment
We will both be gone
as our darkness merged
We know
our love is true

So we turned
the lights off

And became
One...
235 · Dec 2019
A leafless tree
Erik Luo Dec 2019
A leafless tree
Standing bare and still
In the cold wind
Watching life pass through

It is cold
or sad
Its branch
Waving like the streams
With every body exposed
under the sky

A leafless tree
Might be naked and free
Over our head
without the rain

And as music play
And people stay

The tree
is overjoyed
to be

What does a leadless tree feel?

To exist
without cloth or warmth

To be naked
as other parties

To brach out
and be seen
to every
creaks and turns

To be known
So bare
To live
So still

But maybe there is beauty

to live as a leafless tree

to let the sun and the moon
touch you without worry or suffering

To let go
and be seen
naked to the bone
and be still
be happy

To listen and watch
as life pass by
as love surrounds you

and be
a leafless tree
in a dream
of nothing but love
Erik Luo Dec 2019
In a timeless corner of a small cafe
The brick walls and the moving people
Sitting
where time is okay with being
and life is okay with living

The light of what's here
shines
without worry or fear

As people drink and eat

We talked and sang

As I looked down the hall
of people and light
passing and waiting
in time

The song might be playing
The people might be drinking

In this small corner
where everything is happening
without our name

The path of vengeance
or the way of pain
become so unreasonable

As the water and heat
flowing downstream
with money and laughter
singing with all the people

Down the hallway
built by the brick walls
echoing to me
without pride

But this moment
In this small timeless cafe
Writing without thinking
Might be the freest yet
Yet
We lived
and laughed
til we saw
this hallway of a cafe
passing with music playing
and sitting as we decide
Where to go next
206 · Aug 2020
You are
Erik Luo Aug 2020
We are who we are
For that we are
If you can see
yourself in being...

Everything is just the way it is
We struggled and survived our own living
But to see love even after all these
Is the reason why we exist

The power we have
is always inside us
The stories we have
is only there to entertain us

Can you see yourself
Without yourself?
To see it as a song
Singing with the whole?

Can you look at your life?
And feel all the events
To feel those cycles and waves
Those breaths and awes?

There is nothing you can’t do
Nothing you can’t overcome
Nothing you can’t love
Nothing you can’t become

You are nothing
You are love
You are god
You are...
Take you time and love yourself
205 · May 2020
Sometimes
Erik Luo May 2020
Sometimes,
I don't know where I'm going
like I'm falling
endlessly

Sometimes,
I can't feel the mourning
of my death
and my dreams

Sometimes,
I dream of being
a sheep
asleep

Sometimes
I have a feeling
like the silence
too short

But tonight
I hope
I will see
A new light

I dream of a leave
that will soon be here
and I will wake up


Sometimes
I don't know where I'm going
lost in the world
of desiring

Sometime
I forget my own knowing
for the sadness
that lives in being

But today
I heard that dream we are
together, singing that song

And maybe
we'll be here for one more
one more moment away

I don't know
What could have been

I don't need to




And sometimes
I will imagine
The life of a dream lived

And perhaps
is time
to let go our lie
and see what is here

And perhaps
we have to
let go of
the sorrow

oh sorrow

Maybe we'll
just let go
together, back to one

and maybe we can
just love
more than what we are




Sometimes
I feel the sorrow
and then
I remember you

Sometimes
I live in tomorrow
and maybe we will
meet again

And perhaps
I will know
how to play this song

And maybe
I will learn
how to love without hurt

And I remember you are here

I know we are




Sometimes,
I go fearlessly
into the void

Sometimes,
I will know
how to lie

Someday,
I will feel
the warmth
of you embrace

but maybe
is too far away
A simple one
203 · Dec 2019
I look back at life
Erik Luo Dec 2019
I look back at life
At all the moments of hope
All the Moments of faith
All the Moments of love
All the Moments of grit and strength
Though small
But bit by bit
Brought me through hell
and lift me high like a flying angel
A metamorphosis
of the ages

And everything seems clear
All the struggles and hurt
Was to feel the love more strongly
To have the strength to love
without fear
or limitation

I hug myself tight
And feel the warmth
I love, I am
It whispered without doubts
Though the body is cold
The warmth of love is so full
Completing my own prophecy
of a life worth living

I give away death
and I give away pain
I give away the struggle and the ache
I give away all of my beings
Purge my entire existence
into infinite love
Timeless
Whole
And happy

For existing
For being
For loving
For trying

I love, I am
What else is there to say
Just love
Just be
198 · Nov 2020
Truth
Erik Luo Nov 2020
I have suffered for eternity
To see myself more clearly
To remember what I am
And love, unconditionally

I am all of it
That great empty void of love
Existing beyond time and space
Where words can not phrase
And voice can not reach

I am...
The never-changing truth
I shall remember that
Whenever I’m lost
Love
193 · Nov 2020
Transcendence
Erik Luo Nov 2020
The bell rings at the wake of dawn
Singing the echo of that holy song
Where in this moment we shall sit
And await the presence of next gong

The wind is howling about a secret
Of the magical beauty in the now
As it flew, it kissed my skin
And took away all my wrongs

The drum beating in my chest
Speaking the words of divine love
Where no mind nor thoughts,
Can disturb this song

I am...

Nothing more
193 · Nov 2020
Mirror
Erik Luo Nov 2020
The world you experience
Is a mirror
of the perception
Of your self

For the two were never apart
One looking at the other
While the other looked back

Remembering,
Questioning,
and forgetting
This...
188 · Oct 2020
The Universe in you
Erik Luo Oct 2020
The universe in you
Is speaking to you
With the rhythm
of your heartbeat

Without deception
or trickery
Like a knowing
or feeling

of where you are going
Falling into place
Singing away
Your existence
Listen to it
180 · Oct 2020
Sacred tree
Erik Luo Oct 2020
Sacred tree
Sitting alone
In a dream

Its arms folding
Onto the beams of light
The dream is asleep

It speaks a thousand tongues
In and out of its being
Through the blood it drank

In this realm of beauty
Being a part of grace
It seeps into you and me
Fueling the voices of our pain

The sacred tree speaks...
It was once nothing
Through the endless being
It became something

Nonduality, duality
Existence and essence
All are moving and being
Living and dying
Loving and hating

Without time
171 · Oct 2020
A love so great
Erik Luo Oct 2020
You felt that pain
More and more and more...
til you realized
the love it was

Oh, how much love it was
so much that it hurts
That you loved as pain
and suffered as love
over and over
forever

til the two becomes one
and ends
In a love so great
that it stopped existing...

Then it begins again
Repeating, growing, loving, hurting
Even more
Infinitely
Endlessly
As you
It’s all love.
165 · Oct 2020
Peaceful sea
Erik Luo Oct 2020
Let that peace
on the surface of the sea
Bring you strength
through its gentle flow
And show you
the beauty
in your weakness
Weakness is just a strength unseen
164 · Sep 2020
The road to bliss
Erik Luo Sep 2020
We are on a road
Towards eternal bliss
It takes infinite awareness
And endless patience

We are always in it
It has no beginning or end
It can be infinitely long
or endlessly short

Like falling down forever
without ever hitting the ground
you might feel painfully afraid
or extremely blessed

We are conditioned
To believe it is long
That we need to run for a while
To be able to see love comes on

The concept of happiness
Is learned without questioning
For why does it need a cause
Or requires something in exchange

The road to bliss is right here
You can feel it in your heart
To know what you desire
keeps you running forever

Unconditional happiness
Is experienced through awareness
Of the infinite brilliance of creation
And the endless beauty of existence

Have you ever thought about
The chances of your existence?
Of all the things you see around you?
Of the infinite causation
it took for all of this to happen?

The existence of heaven is right here
You only need a little gratitude to hear
To finally see everything with love
and never take it for granted for lack

And you get to decide how long you'll walk
To see and feel the love in your heart
And breathe it deep in
through the bliss in the air

What will you choose?
You decide
Because in the end
It's just you walking
Just you dreaming
Just you loving
Just you...
Breathe in that sweet bliss
161 · Oct 2020
Beingness
Erik Luo Oct 2020
The gentle pain
of existence
Softly caresses
the echoes of your heart

And when you feel tired
It turns and hugs
As the shiver on your skin
Giving you a kiss

The curse of that endlessness
An infinite desire from separateness
Taking a lifetime of beingness
To give you the love from wholeness

I sometimes feel
All of my life in one
single undivided moment
All the emotions
All the beauty
All the love
All the pain
At once...
156 · Dec 2019
The world is a lover
Erik Luo Dec 2019
The world
is like a lover
It brings you gifts
Like the darkness and the shore

With playful teasing
it brings you pain and suffering,
and make you aching with joy
when you are alonely and depressed

Yet it loves like the moon
and the sky
Shining bright but not blind
The sun on the other hand
Is also the world
Giving the warmth and colors
For the birds and the flowers

So when the gun fired through the dark
And the rain falls on the shore
It was the world that loved and cried
to the core

Oh lover
you make me see
the path of death
so clear and bright
Oh lover
You make me weep
For the love of life
in its grace and beauty

And when you love me
I died on the hills
And then I feel
your hugs and kisses
wrapping all around
infinitely
Until my body is gone
and the blood is drawn

I hear you sing
With every pain and pleasure
Words of silence
Songs of love
156 · Dec 2019
I look into your eyes
Erik Luo Dec 2019
I look into your eyes
and see your face in pain
For you are dying
form the joy of seeing god

Oh my god
You said
and paused in silence
As if you stoped existing
for a moment

But your beautiful eyes
reflected the whole existence
With me and everything in it
As you suffer
from divine bliss

I see the light in your eyes
and felt the love that killed
my sense of being apart

I know who I see
and who sees me

I take a deep breath
and held it in
Feeling your energy
flowing up into the void
above my head

Oh god
Oh love

We fell into silence
not knowing what time is
Dying and being alive
Together and apart
Loving each other
for now
and more

So before you close your eyes
Let me be with you for a little more
In one moment of eternity
We shall be here in bliss
Together
154 · Aug 2020
Needle
Erik Luo Aug 2020
I saw a wall
Full of busy people
They dreamed of each other
Day and night

But something is keeping them apart
A small needle in their heart
They each held them tightly
Afraid to let go

This needle of self-blame
Is broken by a mirror
It reflects a silent secret
Of how perfect you are

Why must we hurt ourselves
To eat up that pain and regret
To let the thought of peace
Rob the need for growth

Yet from what peace
Can this needle bring
For all that we need
Is to let it drop

Happiness needs no reason
Acceptance needs no condition
Love needs no requirement
Faith needs no question

So drop that needle
And get back your innocence
To be happy for no reason
To be happy
just because you can
I hope this one makes you feel better.
153 · Nov 2020
Dancing away
Erik Luo Nov 2020
We were dancing
in the void
Spinning and laughing...
Your hair is grey and shiny
Like those silver linings
You face, with wrinkles and lines
Like rivers flowing,
Into a smile
And your eyes
glittering,
Speaking of love
So much love

Sway after sway
Around after around
As if reversing time
You became younger
with every step

“You are like the sunshine to me, my love”
You said
As we danced
towards the end...
153 · Jul 2020
Darkness
Erik Luo Jul 2020
Darkness
Is the shadows of our pasts
To love without fear
We need to see who we are

Sometimes it takes a gentle hug
Sometimes, a journey full of pain and blood
Sometimes you need to feel lost
And sometimes a moment of great love

Through the waves of pain and love
We can begin to see ourselves
Without judgment or masks
Without fear or doubts

The path of existence
Is always heading towards emptiness
As the stars collide and attract
We moved closer to love

In the grand picture of god
All of existence is there to love
To make the love strong enough to last
We created all the pain to feel the contrast

Life is a cycle of pain and joy
As we searched for our meanings and purpose
We slowly moved closer to that love
As we see the truth of our existence
We laughed and cried
For how much we loved
See love in your darkness
152 · Oct 2020
Speechless
Erik Luo Oct 2020
I often wonder
The realness of reality
Like a spiral
Into the endless dream

Old blood darkens
As it leaves my body
From what source
May I speak to you

All the voices
Singing along
All-around

Dancing people
Holding hands
Drinking wines

Speaking verses
Of self-reiterated
Retelling
Of the same story
Again and again

I often wonder
At the beauty of such a view
Of nothing apart from you
Yet to be apart to see you

Voicelessly these thoughts
Perpetually spinning
Talking about
Nothing

Then again
What am I to judge
For they are a part of me
Repeating what I see

Speechless.
I just feel your existence
In bliss...

Oh...
you are so beautiful
147 · Sep 2020
Holy nothing
Erik Luo Sep 2020
Infinite void
Is so beautiful
It took my body
And consumed my soul

Words forming wordlessly
Lights shining lightlessly
Voice speaking silently
Hands touching senselessly

Everything is happening
Nothing is happening
Everything is existing
Nothing is existing

The same time was forming
As we became something
Then in an eternity
Back into nothing

It is a feeling
That contains all of our pains
With joy and love and happiness
In infinite intensity

It can’t be described
It is love
It can’t be understood
It is us

We imagined it
And it became us


We loved it
And we killed it
Again and again
So that we can be it

Oh
How can I ever describe you
I can’t
I am you
Existence is mysterius
147 · Dec 2019
I am
Erik Luo Dec 2019
I am me.
But who am I?
I am god.

But who is god?
God is you.

I am you.

I am love.
I am fear.
I am happiness,
And I am sadness.

I am the soul, the body, and the mind.
I am wealthy and poor,
The beauty of the world.

I am love.
I am god.

I am who you are.

I am what you choose to be.
Whether you choose love or fear,
I love you.
And I know you love me.

I am the flowers.
I am the sea.
I am the sky and the clouds.

And I watch you,
And I love you,
And you love me.

You love me so much that I become you.

I am grateful,
For being you,
For being love.

So much love,
That everything becomes love.
Even death.

I am you.
I am god.
And I love you with all of my beings.

So live,
Live as if you are me,
Live as me!
Live from the love I give,
Live for you are my most beautiful creation.

And be,
Whatever you desire.
For you are my love,
And I am your being.

I love you,
Eternally.
145 · Oct 2020
Snow flower
Erik Luo Oct 2020
You are like
A flower in the snow
Weathering the cold
Yet blooming with love
I shall sing you
a gentle song
And softly touch
your petals
145 · Jan 2020
Another night
Erik Luo Jan 2020
Let the moonlight dance away
And let the fire breath its life
We are here to sing this song
of you and I in tomorrow's land

The night is bright
And the wind is light
Those who have suffered
can now rest

Til tomorrow
To wake in grief
of the self that has tried

The halo around the moonlight
Watching over us
As path in its love

And the smoke in the eye
Might have cleared the night
Away from the light
of the candles
of all of us
remaining in our heart

So as we return to life
We may love
and cry
another night
Erik Luo Dec 2019
I like to see without my glasses
To see the world in a blur
But with newfound beauty

The clearness of things
Often take away their great shape
As the light becomes a halo
they shine, with a million miracles inside

When the world's detail fades
And the sound of light becomes clear

The world feels like a better place
When I see it without clarity

To see faces without their expression
To be loving without any protection

I am more loving
when I see without my glasses

When I see
without judgment

When I love
With all of my being...

To look into your eyes
and not be afraid to look away

That's why I see without my glasses
to see your beauty
entirely
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