Answer:
As destructive as life, As healing as death; An institutioner of strife, Just as prone to bless. It is all that is good, Yet with an evil trend; As it was the beginning of things, It can also be the end.
What hangs others yet can unintentionally hang itself?
My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer's cramp
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
What is bought by the yard by is worn by the foot?
What is always coming but never arrives?