NOTE 1: *Hobbesian - is a metaphor for the dark quadrant of human behaviour. It is a term I created and is inspired by the 17th century writings of English political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes developed a comprehensive theory of nature, including human behaviour. His most-renowned work, The Leviathan (1651), advocates absolutist government as the only means to ensure order and security. In a microcosm, Hobbes asserted that to avoid social chaos, anarchy or unlawfulness, man needs to be ruled over by a central absolute authority. Hobbes postulated further that man is by nature egotistical, greedy and self-assimilated, a political animal who is in constant conflict with his fellow man and environment. The poem uses metaphorical devices to conciliate the concrete with the abstract . . . as well, the poem's cyclical paradigm ends up where it began, cynical, leaving the reader void of any hope. In the last anaylysis, the poem's message is an indictment against the human condition's inability to right itself, augmented and plagued interminably by a perpetual cycle that ultimately leads the human condition down the road to failure; especially, when it is guided by a steering wheel of compromised morality. After all, the sun will one day douse its blinding brilliance and, along with it, the compromised morality of a vulnerable humanity. I guess, our demise qualifies it as the ultimate failure.

NOTE 2: "Pharaoh" = tyrant or central authority. That is, humanity is governed or ruled by dark behaviours, such as greed, envy, want and so forth.