Well, I'm stumped.
Ice? Near the horizon as in the sun sets lower in winter?
"I am learning nothing in this trivial world of [humans]. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." --John Muir
Ice ice baby! Ice is the answer.
But I thought the giveaway sentence would have been,
You can walk on it due to its power.
Feed me and I get stronger,
But give me a drink and I die.
What am I now?
Ok ok ok, one more rock reference clue; Van Halen also has a song about this.
And Richard Pryor found himself full of this.
Rich men lack it but poor men have it in abundance.And it is worse than the Devil.
Fire
And Misery
Tread on the living, they make not a mumble.
Tread on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
Grass or weeds?