Take me, hit me, walk all over me Hard and long; I make you rage I'll take you anywhere or nowhere at all A start and an end, and also what lies between The poet's muse, the transient's anthem, a young man's dream Answer my call, or don't I'll go on

For some I wear thin They get angry when I fade Some say I’m a virtue Few have me in spades What am I?

Some contain clothes, others have boxes. Some even contain skeletons. One last thing, nothing to worry about, Some have people coming out.

I shine brightest in the dark, A beacon when all is bleak. To have me costs nothing, Yet I am what the desperate seek. I can live through a storm or fade with a lie, And without me, your spirit would die. What am I?

Five to start: a small furry animal, one that often gives people a startle as it scurries by, so keep the cat nearby. The last four are a way to snare something, maybe even the first. Add en to this four and it becomes an illegal police trick. Combine the five and the four and you have a device people still try to make a better version of. When it works well, it uses the last four on the first five.