Answer:
Steals an event or even a mood. Reveals the truth or shatters it.
Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed.
What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What flares up and does a lot of good, and when it dies is just a piece of wood?
He has married many women but has never married.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.