Genius and High Intelligence

The thing that differs a man of high intelligence
With a man of genius
Is that a man of high intelligence
Disdains the greater bulk of humankind
While a genius learns to accept their follies.

It often is this distinction that 
Allows a man of higher intelligence
To write the most scathing rebukes of human kind.
The Genius, however, finds their follies too far removed,
So therefore, gets sucked into his work
And never meddles in their affairs
For he understands them better
Than the man of high intelligence.

The man of high intelligence, however
Is in a state of strange benefit
In that he is almost close enough
To the average man
That he can understand their follies
So therefore, steer them where he will.
For he neither understands their follies
But like a Daemon
Shares the folly, but has the intelligence
To resent it in himself.
Therefore, men of high intelligence
Are usually who end up in the leader class
While a Genius is too far removed
For he sees neither the flaws of the common lay
In him, but sees in them something
Affable, which he can study from afar
Like he always does with his instruments.