Seven in One Strike

 

One morning,

the tailor

swatted down seven flies

with a single strike.

To the world,

it was a tiny event

of almost no significance.

But in that moment,

a single thought

quietly began to grow

inside the tailor.

“Maybe there is

something I can do, too.”

Sometimes,

a person’s destiny

begins to take shape

from a faint little certainty

like this.

So he took

a piece of cloth

and embroidered words onto it:

“Seven in One Strike.”

Words can sometimes

travel much farther

than the facts themselves.

Many stories

begin to move forward

from such small,

whispered ideas.

And from that day on,

the tailor’s world

began to take on

just a little more color.