Goethe

Having the 200iq he did,
He made a good life for himself.
His unpopularity comes from
This fact, so said a man in a lecture I once heard.

The man in the lecture
Was the American
Fully embracing everything
Popular about Americanism.
I heard him speak on Mencius,
And it's like these men were
Aliens to his own understanding of the world.

What I draw from Goethe is a supreme
Sympathy... Given his highest IQ
He could see both sides of every argument
And be fully convinced of it, simultaneously.
Yet, his personality did not fracture;
He held both viewpoints within one being.

Though, there is something cute about the way
The lecturer understood their subject
Intellectually, but did not fully grasp
Or agree with it. I like him because he is an American
Unapologetically. Naivety reams from his lectures;
A blind acceptance to a miserable code.
Yet, he like Goethe is happy---
He sees in Goethe the pursuit of life's joys.
There, I see it, too. I am not an intellect infatuated
With the world's suffering.
I am infatuated with joy and peace.

Yet, I look to the conditions of what makes man happiest.
Not very many men have iqs above 200
And thereby, can inherit fortunes
And forge for themselves happiness.
I know I can, through my writing,
Like he with his own.

However, a daemon once said of Goethe
"I wish he had died miserable."
And the lecturer thought, 
"Genius must suffer."
I chuckled. True geniuses do not suffer;
What makes them truly genius
Is their ability to forge happiness
In this world.