Answer:
I'm not really more than holes tied to more holes; I'm strong as good steel, though not as stiff as a pole.
I am perfect with a head perfect without a head; Perfect with a tail perfect without a tail; Perfect with either neither or both.
I am black of eye and bright of hair. I fast into the ground and follow my lord as he races around the world. What am I?
So simple, that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
I cannot be burned in fire or drowned in water
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.