You were my death:
you I could hold
when all fell away from me.
From: http://www.artofeurope.com/celan/cel5.htm
Date: 1968 (original); 1972 (translated)
By: Paul Celan (Anczel) (1920-1970)
Translated by: Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger (1924-2007) and Christopher Middleton (1926- )