Child hood…

In this segment of Childhood reflection, I want to reflect with you on when…I was gay but didn’t have a clue.

So it was like 10 years ago or so, I think I was 9 or 8, whatever…YES THAT WAS 10 YEARS AGO! Don’t do it!…Anyway, SO I remember staying in an apartment with my mom & brother.  My mom had a good friend who stayed in the complex, her name was Lydia if memory serves me correct.  Lydia had two sons, don’t ask me their names, and for the sake of the story only one matters, so let’s call him…Michael.  Actually that maybe… OMG I CAN’T TELL A STORY! I THINK HAVE A.D.D.  I must get through this, please don’t give up on me.  SO, it was like a friday night and Lydia and her son Michael where over visiting and watching tv.  We had family visiting from out of town, Kingsville, TX, very country, love it!  So everybody just chilling hard, when Lydia asked me to go get something from her apartment.  Sure Lydia!  Michael wants to come too.  He’s like 6.  Sure Michael, I’ll be seen in public with you.  So of course we race to her apartment, that’s what kids do, RUN EVERYWHERE!  I get whatever it was, probably cigarettes, and we head back out.  Michael wants to piggyback.  Sure Michael, this will be FUN! yay!…I mentioned it’s night right?  Okay so here I am with Michael on my back.  “Faster, faster”  Sure Michael, I’m play along.  Running with Michael…on my back…in the dark…through the apartments parking lot….. Yeah.  Trips on a SPEED BUMP, good old fashion speed bump too, not one of those smooth wide ones.  Now you have to picture, my arms are holding Michaels legs, because that’s piggyback protocol.  So I land HEAD ON, SLIDING FROM THE MOMENTUM! Yeah.  I hop up SCREAMING MERCY MERCY! AND JUST HAUL ASS BACK TO THE APARTMENT! i have no clue what became of Michael, to hell with him, THIS IS MY FACE!!!! OMG MY BEAUTIFUL FACE!  I get back to the apartment; my face is just burning.  Everything that you can think of that…protrudes, was completely DESKINNED!  The tip of my nose, forehead, cheekbones, chin, upper lip, JUST GONE!  White as chicken meat.   Just screaming MERCY MERCY!  They wash and BURN THE HELL OUT MY FACE TO AVOID INFECTION, then everybody sits around rubbing coco butter on my face.  I’m just crying, LAWD…LAWD WHY ME?! HELP ME LAWD.  And then…BET premiered Whitney’s “I’m Your Baby Tonight”…the crying CEASED! AND I WAS SHHHSING EVERYBODY!….

Yeah…the power of a legendary diva on a gay at ANY AGE!  I will FOREVER love Whitney for that memory, she was right on time….TO THE WHITE MEAT PEOPLE.  And yes I had to go to school like that.  Did they tease me?  HELL NAW, I’M KIYO RAY! I WAS BORN SHARP, i wish a bitch would’ve came for me!…it also helped my brotha was THE bully and would’ve beat them senseless.  I was the pretty one!  That’s what I do! Chao babies.