I try to be close ... It is like a part of my life is ending
Pope John Paul's last night on earth was spent with a crowd of tens of thousands serenading him outside his window as the natural amphitheatre of St Peter's Square lifted their voices high to the top floor rooms where he lay.
Members of the Polish community living in Rome instinctively found each other in the vastness of the square and a handful of women started up a traditional Polish hymn to a national idol, Our Lady of Czestochowa.
