Poem by Samuel Blake When someone is about to leave, stop;look at their face and say goodbye: smile;and know, that in that smile and lookyou receive in return, may be a lastlook and smile: a veritable photographin the mind that will memorialize themoment, and permit a lifetime’s reflection.Perhaps you will be hurried to catch a plane,in a terminal filled with strangers. Or more trivial: they may leave for groceries:stop, look at his or her face and smile, before they walk out the door; as that,if they fail to return, you will have something left. When a child or parent or…