Week 3 of Poetry Wednesday falls right in the middle of the EPIC Cause It’s My Birthday campaign and so I wanted to share a favorite poet of mine, John Donne and a poem that illustrates how connected we all are. It’s called No Man Is An Island. The title was turned into a song by Joan Baez and covered many times, a version I particularly like is below.
We are all in this together. It’s too late to think it’s too late. It’s too late to not truly care what happens to the next generation. It’s up to us, it’s up to you and me. I hope you’ll join me in the fight to do better and to be better. You can join today by making a donation to the #fightmalaria campaign I’m in the middle of. Donate HERE.
No man is an island
John Donne
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
