I like the hurt inside and out idea and I also like the idea of your body being bruised because of that, it's a nice connection and a nice way to describe the emotion of heartbreak. However, the middle line I didn't really like. I couldn't understand how a bruised body would make it hard for you to speak. Maybe I'm just missing something.

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I love haikus, because they have to tell a story with only seventeen syllables. This one revealed so much in so little. Great job.

"It's", not "its"; "you're", not "your".

Reading it again, I believe my initial impression - that the haiku was cute, and childlike - was misled. The "arm is bruised" made my mind jump to an image of a little girl hitting a boy in the arm, to show she liked him, or even vice versa; but "inside and out" makes the haiku more serious.

Which is it? If the former, then I think you should change "inside and out"; if the latter, then I think I can understand this poem as from the viewpoint of a spouse being beaten.

Anyway - I dug it. B)

-Durak