What is Great about this Great Lake

 What is Great about this Great Lake

A vast water world seemingly endless in its length and breadth

Even powerful flyers like eagles don’t cross it, but migrate along its shores

Mysterious in its depths, ships sail eternally there, ghost ships wrecked in savage storms

A place of danger even today, where a rip tide can carry the unwary swimmer out from shore

Though, too, on sunny days, on-shore breezes cool the coast, bringing in frothy waves 

like galloping horses breaking on the beach

A herd, relentless over millennia, their hoofs trampling rock into sand

A place where the land ends and the seemingly limitless waters begin,

where, contemplating it, the mind expands

A place of danger, yes, but a place irresistible

A place of greatness