He hadn’t planned on writing her a song. He was a lyricist, sure, but his words were usually for heartbreak, for politics, for the grit of the city. Not for this. Not for the quiet way she said “good morning” or the way she laughed—a sound that felt like light breaking through the very drizzle he was trapped in.
He wanted to praise her, but couldn’t find the words. Seeing her face, he felt that even God must have spent centuries to make someone like her.
(I can’t write your praises, because what you are doesn’t fit into any poem.) Harsh Chauhan - TERI TAAREEFIEN -Official lyric...
Main teri taareefien nahi likh sakta, Kyunki jo tu hai, Woh kisi ghazal mein nahi samta.
And as the rain finally began to slow, Ayaan knew that some songs are never meant to be sung loudly. Some are just meant to be a lyric video on a rainy day, watched by two people in two different cities, feeling the exact same thing. He hadn’t planned on writing her a song
Teri taareefien karna chaahta hoon, Par lafz nahi milte, Tera chehra dekhkar lagta hai, Khuda ko bhi tere jaise banane mein Arshi ka waqt lag gaya hoga.
He wrote the final line:
He picked up his pen. It felt heavier than usual.
His phone buzzed. A voice note from Meera. He didn’t play it yet. Instead, he imagined the lyric video—the soft, looping animation of a silhouette looking out at a horizon. The words appearing one by one, not bold, but gentle. As if they were afraid of scaring the feeling away. Not for the quiet way she said “good
Harsh Chauhan’s voice, in his head, was the perfect fit. Not a shout, but a knowing murmur. The kind of voice that understands that the deepest praise isn’t a roar, but a whisper you’re afraid to finish because saying it out loud makes it real.
Ayaan finally pressed play on the voice note. “It’s raining here too,” Meera said. “And I was just thinking… do you ever wonder if the rain listens to the same songs we do?”