Are we in the dark?

Why are we all scared of the dark?
Is it because it makes us feel powerless? Or is it because it contains endless horrors? What is it?
Stretching back to millions of years, we as a species have always tried to avoid the dark, we’d light something or the other to escape it.
Looking at a city from a high place afar, we can see how much we are surrounded by the darkness and how desperately we are trying to keep it away. Our lamps and lights incomparable to the huge pall of darkness surrounding us. Yet, it gives us hope that a battle can be fought against this darkness.
But what’s this darkness? It’s just the absence of light, nothing much.
We only fear the darkness because we are this darkness.
In the light, we are self-conscious, we fear repercussions for actions.
In the darkness, we just don’t care.
Though how much bright is the day, it’s darker than ever.
Once it was bright and full of colours, now all we see is black everywhere.
Skies thickened with this darkness of our greed and oceans filled with this darkness of our avarice. This darkness is our creation and we’re fighting a desperate battle for it and against it.
To cover up this darkness, we have surrounded ourselves with false lights while the true one is lost in all this darkness.
We live in troubled times, well, this path could be the end of us. A road to endless darkness and silence.
Or, we could still mend our ways and make things as it were.
And if these words confused you, it did the same with me.