Proverbs like this

when the sky gathers clouds,
it doesn’t respect who it falls on

there’s a market where men fish men
and it is men who buy from men

the earth that feeds man for free
would one day come back
to regain all the debts man owes

you can’t tell a wave that drowns
or one that blows one to shore
to just dip into the deep.

Victor Oyedele