Answer:
I am a span of time you can always see through I am also the timepiece with the most pieces. What am I?
What can you catch but not throw?
What does everyone know how to open but not how to close?
It comes only before, it comes only after. Rises only in darkness, but rises only in light. It is always the same, but is yet always different.
White bird, featherless, flying out of paradise. Flying over sea and land. Dying in my hand.
Long and slinky like a trout, never sings till it's guts come out.