Shades of Change

can you explain this emptiness where once lived plans and dreams and all things big, when did it change and why I don't understand. and when I look back I'm still the same although people and places are rearranged valleys of smiles lost. mountains and hues, gone this must be dust it happens everytime something in my eye those days were based around happiness love lived large and now, what is this shadow that remains cotton balls of tenderness, if only I could believe...