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.
Three little letters, a paradox to some. The worse that it is, the better it becomes.
Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle. And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see.
I have split the one into five. I am the circle that few will spy. I am the path that breaks and gives. I am the bow no man may bend.
What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?