WeirdKendra wrote this powerful poem about her name, and it was very moving. Keep smiling :)

Author's Note: Hey I'm @WeirdKendra on wattpad and this poem is about my name.

My name Kendra is a name my mom thought hard to think of. She said it sounded like a warrior to her. Sounded like someone that would try her best every day. My dad would work everyday for us. Even if he was in pain.
"La vida es difical, life is hard," my dad would tell me.

"Work hard every day," my mom would say, "Just smile at life and the world will smile back," she would tell me.

I got to a point where I did smile at the world but it didn't smile back. I did everything they told me. But life didn't smile back. I remembered why my mom named me Kendra. She named me that because it sounded like a warrior to her. I had to be one. Had to fight through the world. Had to smile at it so one day it would smile back. My life was me stuck in a dark room. Waiting and waiting for someone to unlock me. So I still sit here in this dark room and I still smile at the world waiting for it to smile back...waiting to get out of this dark room.