Answer:
I am an English word that is as long as I am valued.
I reach for the sky but clutch to the ground. Sometimes I leave but I am always around.
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for five minutes. Next she hangs him. Right after she feeds him dinner. How can this be?
I go around and in the house but never touches the house
Never ahead, ever behind, yet flying swiftly past, for a child, I last forever, for adults, I'm gone too fast.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.