The Mighty Viking

It wasn’t my intent to wake you

With stumbling around in the night

But now that you’re up

Can I brew you a cup

And sit with you here in the dawn‘s gentle light?

It wasn’t my intention to burn

The potatoes and parts of the toast

But talking with you over morning news

I may have been somewhatly over-bemused

and held by your company over-engrossed.

It wasn‘t my meaning to intervene

and fiddle and fret with your plans

The worry I express

is considerably less

than the fussing I spent on the burnt frying pan.

It wasn‘t my meaning to overindulge

on the cookies you left on the rack

T‘was not just the taste 

that made them erased

but thinking of you took me wistfully back.

To when I intended to wed you

and time with you ran at a prime

the things that you baked

became feelings that waked

the thought of you all of the time.

It wasn‘t my aim to unload

these troubles at the end of the day

I was really just groping

for a way of eloping

just us two, together forever away

I certainly didn‘t want to bore you

with singing and playing this guitar

I took your quiet to mean you want more

imagine my shock when you started to snore

But you‘ve got to rest for tomorrow‘s morning star

Which I certainly did NOT mean to wake you for.