The Scientist

this is about a scientist who lives in a well, and it's dark and it's damp down there but what gives him hope during his research, is his lover who lives on the ground, however they have a fraught relationship because he's more interested in his job than in his partner, and so she's getting insecure, and he feels the need to be winched up the well to tell her how much she means to him, he hopes that this will give them a chance to rebuild their relationship so it will be as strong as it was at the beginning, he's sitting in the cell thinking, and theres rats scuttling around him in the darkness chasing each others tails, he's also tossing a coin to find out if she still loves him because it's been ages, he starts to realise that it's much harder to be away from human contact in his well than he'd anticipated, although he'd known it wasn't going to be easy, this is much harder than he'd thought, he realises that just as in his scientific investigations he was merely guessing and solving puzzles and couldn't be assured of his success, it is the same in his relationship with his lover on the ground, and all of the progress science has made doesn't take away his need for wanting to be loved, he starts hallucinating that he's being haunted by his lover, and he feels the need to rush back up to be with other people again, eventually the feelings become so intense and heart wrenching that he can only express them wordlessly