Pacts and Family

What if my problem is myself?

The voices in my head all me?

The darkness I see,

All of my own making?

What if I'm my own enemy,

I'm the hell I run away from.

I break myself,

With words, thoughts,

From my own mind.

Dean Olsen, battle of the lost

PS- Except stated otherwise, all conversations are in the main character, Dean Olsen's POV