a bruise
Examples
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone.
A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.
To eat with a bruise.
Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.