Answer:
Marking mortal privation when firmly in place. An enduring summation inscribed in my face.
The letter S is added to pluralise most words in the English language. eg. Letter to Letters Word to Words and Language to Languages. But I am a word that is pluralised with the addition of the letter C.
I am the kind of dog that chases anything red.
I reach for the sky but clutch to the ground. Sometimes I leave but I am always around.
A trail, a union, together tied. Come across me and you will find you cannot change the course I'm on. Without me you cannot travel on. What am I?
No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month.