Strange Apparitions

Mirage

I am long resolved of many things in life
and have been blessed often with Mother Nature's fortune.
My successes have sent me many places
and I have become close friends with sweat and tears.
But is not upon the fields we have bleed in victory
that we reflect upon our circumstance.
The lonely plains of defeat is from whence our minds wander
with the most depressing of constitutions.
Sober or drunk, it matters not, since from here
we only stumble until the next challenge
makes us forget where we were coming from.
I have steadied my legs many times for this purpose
and they are strong from all of the wear.
My heart, unfortunately, is no better off in these times
and squeezes barely and meekly with great pain
in order to move this mountain that is my body and my life.
You have stretched the field so far now that I see no end
and my direction is not governed by any good site
except for that of your mirage in the distance.
Soon, I think, how close it will be.