Fight rather than Flight

The Long Defeat
- Well,
maybe if you didn't retreat so much
from the world,
there would still be a world worth saving.

I never particularly liked the Elves
or Elf-like races,
full of arrogance and superiority
a faded empire
built only on memory.

But I like the Eldar,
but only the warlike Biel-Tan,
who don armour
to become 'aspect warriors'
and give themselves to one aspect of war:
beauty and elegance of violence
driven by a bloody-handed God;
the aggressive warmonger behind the elven facade.
Better to die a warrior's death of defiance
than shirk from it all,
and shrink into self-preserving communes.
If defeat is inevitable,
better to burn the light
of stubborn defiance,
to pass the torch to the next;
than fade into darkness
and complain none are worthy
while refusing to lead by example.

Yet perhaps the Elves chimed too much with me?
No,
I always was more a 'Tomb King':
arrogant and different,
and from another time,
tempering faded glory with a temper
enough to fight for past values.