Ships in the Night

In the month of May in twenty-twenty-five Johan Helberg was still very much alive He was living in Norway, on the edge of the bay And a huge container ship had gone astray Deep in the night on the full of tide It took its sixteen crew for a mysterious ride Something went wrong and we know not what Johan answered his doorbell after rising from his cot He had to bend his neck to see the top Of the NCL Salten aground on his plot It arrived with a rumble, not a bang or Anything enough to disturb Johan’s languor Headed to Orkanger through the Trondheim Fjord Its intended route had somehow been ignored It apparently had slipped way off course Although the consequence might have been so much worse Johan himself seemed calm and unflapped Which was quite surprising when he was close to being zapped Reports said the ship had done something like this before Although then it broke again free with its own power raw