Tricksters Raking in the dough making people know They are taking it with them when they go Taking it all calling all the rest takers The ostentatious and the ungracious Fall by surprise for being fallacious Breath in and out of the movers and shakers Cared for by the best but shared with the rest Heartbeat of all of us ready or not Fragile no matter how agile we are Some real things coming becoming dealbreakers Living the way the ungiving forgot Lofty and lonely but only so far Death is the taker of all of the makers A question mark at the end of the quest Mortal reality trickles down on Both the tricksters and the tricked as life goes on Steven Curtis Lance