What is at stake (couplet)

What is tragic is that if anything is worth living for, it is worth dying for.
What is hopeful is that if anything is worth dying for, it is worth living for.

Thus choosing fate does destiny enjoy.

Death is the end of the world only for me, when
Affirmedly it is not the end of the world.
Time is a then and now and not yet kind of affair.
What a relief, he said; yes, now I can die.
Maybe now you will live, came the reply.
Good enough without measure. Pleasure
is now taking its time.