I can't understand this poem?

I think when it's talking about "night" becoming morning, it's a metaphor for the beginning of a new age. The night is the darkness from the lack of understanding we live in, and morning is the new light that the speaker thinks will come. He needs reassurance, though, that the light will come to the leaders in the world to help him keep the faith that he and his children, I suppose, will survive. He wants the light to come because he knows the destruction that is in store for him in the night, tonight. It says life cannot live without love, without the sun, as natural "light," nights without the stars for light. He feels that society has already killed him inside, so what is the point of becoming stronger from getting hurt when he can't feel anything. The world can be superficially fixed with politics, but the scars from war just reminds us of the pain of being divided nation against nation.