Answer:
A big shiny black car nobody wants to be a passenger in.
What goes up but never goes down?
What must you give before you can keep it?
Power enough to smash ships and crush roofs. Yet it still must fear the sun.
It's in your hand though you cannot feel it. Only you and time can reveal it.
They come to witness the night without being called, a sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to the sight each day without the hand of a thief.