In the Face of Fear

It can take so little to change so much
with a few words the course of your life veers
you'll begin to wonder about each touch
and what you've done wrong for the past few years

Bad news can set such a good path askew
it can make you question your best laid plans
you may think that you need to start anew
you make think that your life has left no chance

Yet really has anything at all changed?
you are the same as you were yesterday
the change is that your struggles have been named
it's been there all along hidden away.

You've looked in its face now that's why you fear
the terror you've already fought for years