Yesterday in Baltimore was a glow of a city I knew before
There were power lines hung in the sunshine
Trees there draped in dew
Yesterday I thought I saw a city I once knew

Blending with the stop light was a man who had no home
There I was with my bag gathering pennies of my own
I must have walked past ten of them before my day was through
Gave him mine cause he remind me of someone I once knew

Walked across the city blocks and peeking into stores
Catching my reflection in the dark on the closed doors
Wanting to know where abouts that girl was going to
A little more but she looks like the someone I once knew

-Yesterday in Baltimore
Erica L. McLaughlin, 3/27/2004