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Steals an event or even a mood. Reveals the truth or shatters it.
A mile from end to end, yet as close to as a friend. A precious commodity, freely given. Seen on the dead and on the living. Found on the rich, poor, short and tall, but shared among children most of all.
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
Where humans breath liquid?
I have legs but never walk, I may have flowers but no soil, I hold food but never eat.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.