Tortoise or Hare — Which?

You have hair,
You have ears,
You must be a hare.
Go, hare, go.
Not there, not there.
Come on, hare.
Run, run, run.
Give up — that’s not the dream.
You only have a life if you win.

Dreams fade, hope dies, quitting looms…

Yet I look in the mirror.
The mask fell off.
I’m not a hare.
I don’t go, go, go.
I don’t run, run, run.
My dream is my dream; I won’t quit.
I can win even if I’m slow.

I have a shell,
And I have scales.
I am a tortoise.
Look, tortoise, look.
Look here, look there, look everywhere.
Go slow, tortoise.
Look, plod, look.
Your dreams wait at the finish line.
Advance slowly to win life again.