Pain

"Pain -- has an Element of Blank --
It cannot recollect
When it begun -- or if there were
A time when it was not --"
-Emily Dickinson

Here you can see the nastiest of my husband's many bruises from his fall. Yes, it really is that color. Poor guy.

[Leslie Frattaroli]

it could be worse...

[Stephen Smiley]

Dang...that looks aweful.