Dire

DIRE

-adj. (usually prenominal)

1. Also: direful . disastrous; fearful

2. desperate; urgent.

3. foreboding disaster; ominous

Here in this forum

For the tiniest lapse

I felt a dire urge

To run up those stairs

And fly

But remembered

In time

That my wings had been

Clipped at birth

And sealed inside

My occipital bone