Selena

(Dedicated to Selena Quintanilla Perez who died March 31, 1995.)

You were murdered in cold blood in 1995.
While you lived, your music career thrived.
It was sad because you died at the age of twenty-three.
We were both born in 1971, you were the same age as me.
When you died, the music industry lost a great star.
Now you're singing for God because Heaven is where you are.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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August 15, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Beautiful dedication(sic?). Like her music never dies this poem will also live on as a testiment to her talent, and yours. Thanks
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