Twenty five numbers

We together
One forever
Two whenever
We are three
To free, four
In our hearts
As five arrives
To start six in 
The fix
Of seven
Like heaven
As eight
betrays hate
while nine
dines on time
when ten defends
Eleven and twelve
Offends the devil
In the creating of
Thirteen
(the first thing we see)
Beyond fourteen
Ages
We lift in fifteen
To be as the sixteen
Is sweet and seventeen
Is sweeter than the eighteen
Summers of nineteen songs
in the twenty to twenty one 
Years before we turn twenty two
And are through with being
twenty three and twenty four
With no more to count 
Beyond twenty five to life