Daily Cascade

On Stage

Prompt: Words
Have fun with these words- talented, adjust, public, nuisance, endorse, strength, strange. stumble and actor.

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On Stage

His heart in flames, chasing fame
the *actor stands, beneath the light, and
the crowd, his *public, their eyes aglow

they lean forward to feel the show
of this *talented one, while his words rule
but a *nuisance, a cough so loud and cruel,

still, he stands, but *stumbles over his words askew,
now the stage feels *strange...new, yet with *strength,
he shakes off pain, to begin all over again,

for if nerves rule one's own play, no script could *adjust
what his heart may say, while critics can choose what they
can *endorse, only the applause will chart the course.