Answer:
What has a bottom right at the top?
What liquid can contain the soul?
When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day.
Upon me you can tread, though softly under cover. And I will take you places, that you have yet to discover. I'm high, and I'm low, though flat in the middle. And though a joy to the children, adults think of me little.
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.
It's what light turns into in the night