Dagger of the Mind

Is this a dagger which I see before me?

The handle towards my hand?

Come, let me clutch thee!

I have thee not but yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?

Or art thou but a dagger of the mind,

A false creation proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?

by William Shakespeare

Drawings by TJ Richter

© 1993 Theodore J. Richter