I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

I welcome the day with a show of light, I stealthily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, But by noon, alas! I'm gone.

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?

I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?

I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

Pronounced as 1 letter, And written with 3, 2 letters there are, and 2 only in me. I’m double, I’m single, I’m black blue and grey, I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. What am I?

You measure my life in hours
I serve you by expiring
I vanish faster when I am thin
and slower when I am thick
The wind is my energy
What am I?

Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it?

A finger goes in me. You fiddle with me when you're bored. The best man always has me first. What am I?