Anabasis

No victory is victory  
without some type of loss;  
a cost too often some won't see,  
like a greedy boss.    
   
He knows the bucks that he must spend  
and those that must stop here,  
but all the rest will be his friend  
much more than any peer.  
   
And so in effort he must win  
come hell or water high,  
where freedom lets his greed begin,
and warriors to die.  
   
And that's why payoff needs to be  
where only colleagues tread  
into a future, equally,    
so no one winds up dead.