Free 4 Line Shayari Examples

Your message came at half past two, Just one word: awake? I said, always, for you. We talked till the birds began their tune, And I forgot to ask the sky for the moon.

I learned the way you take your chai, Less milk, more ginger, and never too dry. That is the closest I have come to prayer, Memorising the small things you carry everywhere.

We never planned it, it just occurred, One shared umbrella, one borrowed word. Now every rain has your name inside, And I walk slower with nowhere to hide.

The city sleeps, but my screen is bright, Rereading old chats in the pale blue light. You typed take care like it was nothing, And I have been careful ever since, of everything.

I do not want the fairy tale ending, Just the middle part where we keep pretending That the auto fare is a fight worth having, And your hand in mine is the whole of the evening.

Say my name the way you say it when you are tired, Soft, half-yawning, like nothing is required. That is the version I keep for my bad days, A voice that asks nothing, and stays.

Your dupatta caught in the door of the train, We laughed, you cursed, it started to rain. That was the day I stopped counting reasons, And started counting you in all my seasons.

I kept the hoodie, you kept the ring, We both agreed to forget the thing. But the hoodie still smells like December, And you, I hear, still choose to remember.

You said we would talk when the dust had cleared, The dust cleared, and nothing appeared. No fight, no scene, no final word to send, Just a read receipt, and that was the end.

There is a bench near the college gate, Where we used to sit and complain about fate. I passed it today and did not look down, Some places hurt more than the whole town.

I am fine now, that is the rumour, I laugh at jokes, I have found my humour. But some songs still get skipped in a hurry, And some nights I still type, then delete, sorry.

The last thing you said was drive safe, I did, I always do, I am not brave. But I have driven past your street a few times since, And every time the traffic light winces.

We were two cups of tea on one plate, One cooled fast, the other could wait. Nobody drank it, nobody meant to, Some things just go cold, without a reason to.

I did not lose you in one big blow, I lost you in the little things going slow. The good morning texts that came a bit late, Then not at all, and I learned to wait.

Nobody claps when you wake at five, Nobody sees the days you barely survive. But the version of you from a year ago Would cry to see how far you go.

The exam was hard, the results were slow, Your father said nothing but his face said go. So you went, and went, and are still going, That is the only secret: just keep going.

Rejection is just a door that said not now, It did not say never, it did not say how. So I built my own door, painted it too, And walked through it wearing my oldest shoe.

Start ugly, start scared, start on a Monday, Start with a plan you will change by Sunday. The ones who look polished did not skip the mess, They just refused to let the mess be their address.

The lamp on my desk knows the truth, It saw the nights nobody counted as proof. When the result comes, they will call it luck, The lamp and I will call it the hours we stuck.

Failure came home and sat on my bed, I made it chai and let it be fed. Then I said: you can stay the night, but not longer, Tomorrow I wake up a little bit stronger.

My hands shook the first time I said my dream out loud, My voice was small and the room was a crowd. But a dream once spoken cannot be unspoken, And a small voice, repeated, is never broken.

One bike, three people, no helmet, no plan, A chai stall at midnight, a broken fan. We had nothing then, and we had it all, Now we have everything, and we still call.

You sat outside the hospital with me all night, Said nothing wise, just held the light. That is what a friend is, I think, Someone who stays when there is nothing to fix.

We fought over a girl in class eleven, Did not speak for a week, it felt like seven. Then you sent one meme with no caption, And that was the whole apology, and the reaction.

Some friends are seasons, they come and go, You are the weather, the steady slow Kind that is just always there, In the background, in the air.

You know the password to my phone, You know the one story I have never shown. And when I sit in the dark and do not speak, You order food and put on the same old movie for the week.

I never say thank you and you never mind, That is the arrangement, that is the kind Of friendship that runs without a bill, We just show up, and always will.

Different cities, different rent, different weather, But the group chat still says: dinner together? We know it will not happen this year, We say yes anyway, that is why we are here.

The clock on the wall is ten minutes fast, My grandfather set it so no one is last. He is gone now, the clock is still ahead, Some habits outlive the ones who said.

Twenty-two, and already tired of the race, Everyone running to some better place. I stopped to tie my shoe and looked around, And found the evening waiting on the ground.

My mother folds the old sarees with care, Each one a wedding, a death, a prayer. She says nothing about the years inside, She just smooths the creases and lets them hide.

There was a summer I thought would never end, One mango, one cycle, one stubborn friend. It ended, of course, like summers do, But the boy on the cycle is still riding through.

Rent is due and the fridge is bare, The fan spins slow in the humid air. Still, the neighbour's radio plays an old song, And for four minutes nothing feels wrong.

I planned my life at seventeen in a book, At twenty-five I gave it one look. Not one line of it had come true, And still, somehow, I had made it through.

Time does not heal, that is the lie they sell, It just rearranges the room where you fell. You stop bumping into it after a while, And strangers mistake that for a smile.

Chai ki pyaali aur teri baatein, Dono thandi hoke bhi meethi lagti hain. Tu kehti hai bas do minute aur, Aur subah ho jaati hai, kaun kare gaur.

Kuch rishte kaagaz pe nahi likhe jaate, Bas nibhaye jaate hain, chupchaap, bina waade. Jo saath tha andhere mein, wahi apna hai, Baaki sab toh bas ek sapna hai.

Gir ke uthna humein aata hai, Har zakhm ek naya raasta dikhata hai. Taane dene wale aaj bhi wahin hain, Hum wahan pahunch gaye, jahan wo kabhi nahi.

Wo mujhe bhool gayi, main use yaad rakhta hoon, Wo aage badh gayi, main wahin khada rehta hoon. Farq bas itna hai dono ki kahani mein, Usne likha tha pencil se, maine syahi mein.

Dost wo nahi jo har baat pe haan kahe, Dost wo hai jo galat pe roke aur phir saath rahe. Bhai bolna aasaan hai, nibhana mushkil, Tu dono karta hai, isliye tu hai qabil.

Subah ki chai, Papa ka akhbaar, Maa ki awaaz, uth ja, ho gayi der yaar. Ye sab chhota lagta tha, ab samajh aaya, Ghar wahi tha jahan koi jagane aaya.

Raat ke barah baje, sadak sunsaan, Main aur mera phone, dono pareshaan. Ek message ka intezaar tha kabse, Aaya toh bas itna: so jao, ab se.