The Last Performance

                   The Last Performance

The curtain is falling but still he sings his song
A tortuous rendition to be coaxed along
A kindled kindness of a kindred kind heart
Unwilling to admit that he's finished his part

A laggard he's not as he performs on his stage
While the meddlesome critics against him do rage
He's always infectiously infatuated
With impassioned delight that has not abated

But he stumbles along as he performs his role
A pitiful composite of a tortured soul
Unknowing his time to perform has now passed
And this time his performance could be his last

He delivers his lines though his timing is flawed
And laughs at his performance, the only one awed
And though his audience sees him as bizarre
Still he struts across the stage a fading star

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Words required to be used by "Para/Poem Challenge "Open""  in this poem:
         Laggard...Meddlesome...Tortuous

And the required line: kindled kindness of kindred kind heart
and: infectiously infatuated with impassioned delight