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Limit

His face opens and you see the sun.
(Peonies, fizzy wine, fanfares, gongs.)
You would do anything for him;
you scarcely think of yourself.
But you will not die for him.
The boundless thing, Romance,
known for the first time, and at once
its limit. Or yours: You will not die.

By April Bernard

(there is somehing to be said for self-sacrifice being a kind of self-death where you give up yourself to become the thing desired by the other, but still)

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You will not be surprised, I think, that reading the above brought this to mind:

"For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:6-8 (NASB)