I think the golden in the poem refers to the sunset because cherry and ponyboy was explained in to the book looking in the sky.
What is the outsiders?
The outsiders is a story made by S.E. Hinton. The book was created in 1967, place has been taken place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And the story is based on the Socials and the Greasers. The Greasers and the social are a gang. The greasers mother died. So they all had to stay together and become a gang.