Numbers

As a child, I counted from one 

Eagerly memorizing each numeral

Two, three, and four

I wanted to count until I could not count no more

I learned to count up until the thousand

More and more each day, the tens, the hundred thousands

Recently though life has been changing me

Instead of counting up and further, the numbers dwindle until they're less than three

I count down the days, I count down the moments, the time I am left before the  curtain closes

Two, it is almost done

One more night and this is my goodbye

What's next after the one is gone? Where do you go when it has transpired?

My zero is on the horizon, the time has come

I have learned to count down

I have returned to my start.