Answer:
I never was but always will be. No one ever saw me but everyone knows I exist. I give people the motivation to better themselves every day. What am I?
I can be any color you can imagine. You see me in everyday life. Look around, you can probably see some of me right now. What am I?
With a halo of water and a tongue of wood, stone as skin long I stood. What am I?
You do not want me when you donβt have me, but when you have me you donβt want to lose me.
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead.
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.