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The Game Of 5s

Five fingers beneath1 the skin to six feet below the ground2,
Happiness has its own meaning in this journey for everyone.
Five are the senses3 that some subdue, and some become their slaves,
Some conquer the six directions4 by sword and some merely by their brains.
Five are the rivers that flow to west5, before they enter the sea,
And the sixth river of knowledge6 silently flows, somewhere but no one can see.
Some run between the five mirages7, some trapped in five sheathed halls8;
Some confine their souls within five pillars9 and some move out to seek the God.
Five or seven or twenty-eight is the number some are afraid10,
Some give back good, some only take, some measure the deeds away.
When the five gates11 of the prison open and when of shackles he is free,
It was just all the game of fives12, he knows, the roll of dice will have its way!

Notes
1. womb
2. Christianity/ Islam - grave
3. Hinduism - Touch, Sight, Smell, Hearing and Procreation
4. Hinduism - six ordinal direction
5. The five rivers of the Punjab
6. Hinduism - Sarasvati River - said to be flowing underground.
7. Created by five senses
8. Hinduism - Panchakosha / Five sheaths
9. Islam - Five Pillars
10. Hinduism, Jainism, Islam - number of hells
11. Hinduism/ Sikhism/ Buddhism/ Jainism - Five gates in body from where soul escapes at death.
12. Hinduism - Five elements, Panchamahabhuta

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