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None of us is a stranger to loss—not in our clinical work, not in our own lives: we suffer large losses, for sure, and the concatenation of smaller (and less remarkable losses) more surely still, not only of people but of places and things. Here's the modern American poet John Berryman on the subject:
The Ball PoemWhat is the boy now, who has lost his ball.What, what is he to do? I saw it goMerrily bouncing, down the street, and thenMerrily over—there it is in the water!No use to say '0 there are other balls':An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boyAs he stands rigid, trembling, staring downAll his young days into the harbour where