Of Termites and Men

Termites are social creatures
within cooperative swarm,
they collectively form,
the distinctive castle of their species
and from the beginning of time,
the hive-mind,
has had it's own unchanging features
Could our race be the same?
It seems to be common sense,
that through moral benevolence,
humanity can be as social as some claim;
but why oh why does common sense
always reflect the common good?
It is no coincidence
that we are not disposed to brotherhood.
And why does it seem
that great minds have their own universe?
Is it simply a dream,
or has the future been rehearsed?
imagine a universe exists, where no one is alone
where an essence remains whence the body's gone,
and others where only one resides,
and no one cares
for the wisdom he confides,
until the day his genius bares
and it all collapses in;
and the butterfly
can only try
to escape the universe within.