Answer:
What flies without wings?
I fly when I'm born. I lie when I'm alive. I run when I'm dead. What am I?
I help you carry your books.
The more of me there is the less you see.
I am the beginning of the end and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation and I surround every place.
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.