Analysis of Never Quite Benighted

It seems the current stars have vanished
Into dawn, all banished
By a newer, nearer light.
A poignant plight
That makes their brief appearance
A favor of greater endearance
Because they only shined
When eye and mind
Most needed them, have drawn
Us toward whatever dawn
spreads out, out there, past every spread
Of darkness here. Their red
And white have let us know, in spite
Of any dark, we’re never quite benighted.