Answer:
If you're stealing honey, be prepared to receive vengeance in this form.
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world without burning?
Reaching stiffly for the sky, I bare my fingers when its cold. In warmth I wear an emerald glove and in between I dress in gold.
I grow for a surface, even if you cut me. I continue to grow even after death.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.