Why is the Dark "dark"?

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Is it the lack of Light, depleted brightness, or is it secreted blightness - a thick, smothering Ether?

Is the Dark either bad or just not good, or is it just some other either?

Is The Void a toy that the Troubled pick-up and play with like an anti-joy bauble?

Or is the Emptiness a place to go for the Can't-Take-No-Mores who seek asylum from the Full-of-Its?

Is Nowhere-Nothingness a tool to use for untangling the Knots that will not slip after looking everywhere and trying everything?

Why is the Dark only where I cannot see, but so desparately need to?