WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.270 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.270 --> 00:00:11.970 align:middle line:84% To Insure Survival, for Rainy Dawn, born July 5, 1973. 00:00:11.970 --> 00:00:13.830 align:middle line:90% You come forth. 00:00:13.830 --> 00:00:17.070 align:middle line:84% The color of a stone cliff at dawn 00:00:17.070 --> 00:00:24.330 align:middle line:84% changing colors blue to red to all the colors of the Earth. 00:00:24.330 --> 00:00:27.810 align:middle line:84% Grandmother's spider speaks laughter and growing 00:00:27.810 --> 00:00:32.400 align:middle line:84% and weaving things and threading them together to make life to 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:36.330 align:middle line:90% where all these, all these. 00:00:36.330 --> 00:00:40.440 align:middle line:84% You come out child naked as the cliff 00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:44.700 align:middle line:84% at sunrise shorn of anything except spots 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:46.500 align:middle line:90% of your mother's blood. 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:50.370 align:middle line:84% You just kept blinking your eyes and trying 00:00:50.370 --> 00:00:52.770 align:middle line:90% to catch your breath. 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:57.900 align:middle line:84% In five more days they will come singing, dancing, 00:00:57.900 --> 00:00:59.280 align:middle line:90% bringing gifts. 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.860 align:middle line:84% The stones with voices, the plants 00:01:01.860 --> 00:01:07.500 align:middle line:84% with bells they will come, child they will come. 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:08.000 align:middle line:90%