How Will It End?

Three Muslim students killed in North Carolina. Jewish hostages killed at a kosher market in Paris. The Charlie Hebdo massacres. The NAACP firebombed in Colorado. And it’s just February.

How will it end, how it will end?

…

this bleak year, year of blind rats,

this bleak year of rage and rancor,

you ask, you ask me, how will it end?

—Pablo  Neruda, Chronicle of 1948 (America)