Wrong. 'born' is not in present tense. 'being born' is present because 'being' implies the present, not because born does. Same applies to 'being carried': 'car

Wrong. 'born' is not in present tense. 'being born' is present because 'being' implies the present, not because born does. Same applies to 'being carried': 'carried' does not in any way imply the present. And, moment doesn't have to correspond to an SI time unit 'second'. And no, a poem doesn't have to be an accurate description of reality (if so it would hardly qualify as a poem). And my point is: stop trying to make it more accurate, because your attempts are futile; you're only destroying the poetic beauty without any gain to justify that.