Good Bye Washington

I am leaving within a few days for Istanbul. I am planning to stay for as long as I have to, lots of things to do. I would like to say goodbye for a short while with the following excerpt by Sara Veglahn:

I think you are gone perhaps. Going, yes, but you never left, never left often enough, never disappeared from here, never departed, you have gone away, ran off, I am going, I am leaving, I am going away, you could stay here, keep on here, continue, wait, stop.