Poems, Figurative Language

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk

One paints the beginning
of a certain end.

The other, the end of a
sure beginning.

From this poem, I can see that a lot of metaphor is being used. For example, "skin like dawn" is metaphor, as it describes the object, which is skin, and figuratively relates it to dawn. Figurative Language is used in this poem to make it more interesting and there's usually a hidden meaning inside. For example, if you say:
It is dawn,
It is musk.
It doesn't really mean anything.
If a poem says something like
I am like dawn,
you are like musk,
and the sentences that follows is about love, it may mean that the distance between them is the the time distance from dawn to musk and only time is needed to make them closer.