Amongst the blue-eyed leaves you made your beds,
Conflicting patterns sailing on the breeze;
Then weeds appeared with green and narrow heads,
A nursery that couldn’t help but please.
 
You left behind the flowers of your youth,
And focused all your growth on this new truth;
So when this future host became waylaid,
Your whispers on the wind began to fade.
“Conflicting patterns sailing on the breeze” (Photo Credit: Walter Siegmund).
This is an Heroic Rispetto, inspired by recent research which has found that human-induced evolution amongst wild animals can cause localized extinctions when the practices that brought about this evolution rapidly change.
Edith’s checkerspot (Euphydryas editha) is a species