Would you lose your life for me?
Step beyond
Barren region of self-thinking,
Give a walkover to self-rule?...
Would you die
For the ageless virtue?

Would you meet death for me?
Sweating blood... guiding
Neighbors to bountiful ground?
Searching for the gone astray...
Until found?

Would you die for me?
Subdue wishes
To highest rule of Truth?
Curb the instincts
For the purpose noblest?
For the other... sweating blood...
Ensuring bestowal of favors flood?

Be tested devotee - a pleasing gift for me?
Eager for heroic gesture,
Be piously self-giving...
Dying while living...
Living by reason of dying...
Dying for The Undying...
Living because of dying for me?

Would you lose... life for me?
Unsparingly self-sacrifice thee?
To unfailingly protect me?...
Be unshakable devotee
To "The Immutable Thee?"
Would you fully sacrifice
The altering, shifting "me"
For The Unchanging, Infinite Thee?

Would you die for me?
Be virtuously self-giving -
Not pretending to give
To get hold of pleasure -
Using me as mere object
In vast measure?...

Not crushing our shared dignity?...
Partaking in destined felicity...
Not deprive of Life...
In intimacy strife?
Being free
By loving me...
And, die to thee... to love me?

Your not dying -
Is less...
Worse and worse! than lying...
To love me...
Is to die to thee...
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Would you lose your life for me?

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Oh, the infinitival dynamism of love!