Answer:
I am heavy forward, but backward I'm not. What am I?
I am higher than the king
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
The thunder comes before the lightning, which comes before the cloud. The rain dries all the land it touches, wrapping the earth in a blood red shroud. What am I?
I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.