Patti Smith publishes the verses in memory of Pope Francis

“Like a small flower, a lion's tooth, humble yet strong. I saw it this morning and he moved me. Goodbye Pope Francis. Nature and poetry and suffering will feel the lack of their champion”. These are the verses that Patti Smith published in memory of Pope Francis, who passed away yesterday at the age of 88. To accompany the verses, the image of a lion tooth found on the sides of a Tokyo road.
The US singer -songwriter, who in 2014 had performed in the Vatican for the Christmas concert by singing “or Holy Night”, then published two photos of his hands that have come to those of the Pope in a meeting between the two in the Basilica of San Pietro accompanied by the wording: “This is to wish peace during the Earth Day (Earth Day)”.

Patti Smith, 78 years old, has always had a special relationship, “a personal experience” with faith, which led her first to establish a special bond with the figure of Albino Luciani, John Paul I (in his album “Wave” there is a photo of Pope Luciani with an Ode dedicated to him) then to get closer to Bergoglio, for which he also composed a song, “This”. “I had the privilege of tightening his hand,” he commented in an interview with the Medimex of Taranto in 2019. “When Benedict XVI announced that he wanted to give up, I immediately hoped that his successor made a courageous choice and chose the name of Francesco,” he said. “I was more than an hour in front of the TV to wait for the name to announce and thought: 'Francesco, Francesco'. I hoped that anyone who had appeared at that balcony would choose that name. When there was the announcement, when they said he had chosen Francesco, I had a great emotion, I came to my eyes”.