Answer:
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
I am the enemy of all that is good and right. Five letters--that is the length of my name. Remove the first and evil I remain
It keeps you on the ground and stops things from floating around. What is it?
Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, all day I follow no matter how fast you run. Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.
In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.