when i was a little boy i was an altar boy in a roman catholic church that had a statue of st francis of assisi and i was always very intrigued by st francis because he he spoke to the birds he loved t smell flowers he was a poet so i think it was probably inevitable when i began my career as a playwright that i would eventually write a play about st francis i began the play and i started to do research about his life and what i found was simply hauling he wore a hair shirt constantly because he had l desires or so so he put it he flagellated himself constantly he was appalling to his mother and father and so i said to myself well this is not someone i really want to deal with and so i put that and we planned our trip so that on the way back we could stop in the city of assisi where st francis was born and we arrived there on the twenty eighth of december very early in the morning fact thirty three years ago from this very day when we were filming this i didn't sleep much but i got up very early to go to the basilica which was right across from the hotel where we were staying because i wanted to visit the touma st francis i went to the church it was about seven o'clock and i saw a sign which indicated that you go downstairs to the tomb of st francis so i did and i went into this room full chapel completely deserted there were candles and poinsettia and so i went into the front pew and i sat there just just observing the beauty of this place and i don't know of a sudden i heard in the upper chapel the monks singing gregorian and i thought oh boy i'm going to lose it here and suddenly from the door on the right an old priest came in obviously ready to serve mass nobody there me so he rushed up to me and asked me if i would assist him in serving mass what could i say i mean i had left the church years before that i did and so francis entered my life again so when i began doing these films about people at the under their lives he was one of the first people that came into my life and so i thought to myself how am i going to explain the things that bothered me about him so many years before it's very easy he apologized in this piece he apologizes to his body for abusing it he apologizes to his mother and father for how he treated them and he goes on this if when i did enter in his heart i must chastise his body my case be the same wrong so from now when will they put you naked streets a c c could walk could run your air your sign your sky a creature not bound to put least in love of you my god of you who made us  friends be with me forever go from this place the world and there proclaim the love i have of all what live the birds the cows the singers of the noon all all who are my progeny go forth but course cloth on your skin go forth from here the earth and say and sing you are all who live  all who die will i preserve this life but see to see are we all complete francis francis said francis go from this place the world and say them all i love you i love you years boys since me naked the confines of their blood made cakes of blood who saved me this who looked in my robes and said do not strip him for the knives but bring him back so we can sell them it is they loved me i saw them walk these naked corpses if they could smell their breath so could there not is another time see blood red blood had blood their music of decay as water sake them or the flowers now above awful things are buried on the train well out of that flowers cover ol but my this earth what shall i mourn are you till you are with us again your smile your hair your hair when i didn't cut it for you a locks remain in your face where then you went to him where were you always destined i put factor in your daily prayer our mother earth sister sky one jesus christ miracle of life you give to all your creatures and say these are inviolate these will not go sodden into the earth for any things my hand desist make me that man who say to all enough is enough no more and no more and no killing remember oh my god i said these words those poppy fields and you touch my  me strength to walk these words the cities of this place remember last father mother all who were my  and what of me one man could i so do but anything we kill the armament of god or charge forward every name we call him what hair on his face where do he walk are insane and say you shall not kill you shall not kill while the other sought from rome that i could go to egypt and there confront of us of to do no more yes me francis of assisi in hash brown robes and leather sandals and hair upon mine and when i could one say this muslim this christian this and this friend i went with only my brother luminato and walked three days the same and till i was accosted and brought the feet of camille and then he looked at me and i had him we embraced each other my arms his chest and his poetry my roads he brought us i stayed there twenty days and spoke not form and substance how could we love him thus not kill the one the other how could we worship god till all are so gone from us the splendor of holy i love i love that man that muslim man is almost no other i have ever seen and where we could i know the war when that moment face we knew that what would remain rather brother brother father mother you i could not see in my discovery forgive those years i passed your door and would not hear that hears within have our son misplaced us misplaced  forgive you die and i could not tell you this but god so am i sure have told you this and will lie too when now i am ripple it were were from nothing did you make me some flash some see some water some days and less see here and there i was fresh from the hazards of your legs father mother mother father forgive me in great love with this i could not articulate and pray these millennia your days when i w ask these others come with me i did not pass i did not see i was content you and me were first my friends the others so many i went to rome to plead for them some structure there you were peter friended give it me and now they are in everywhere and so they want what all men rules and home and for i did not this but only walk as you did once wanted nothing but your love to roam and other love all you have put  what do i say my brother's so to come this place and sing me naked in the earth where do i want to go to soon become again the dust i was never will be  she's she's here my song hug hard my ecstasy is but what were your oh oh love us all you came to give us peace and brotherhood divide the simple truth we love each other we love ourselves we walk rug we sing of the birds the foxes of the wolves we warn of the fires and wash the silver water