Their Fabric is Thread-Bare

[Mark Cecil]

I think there is a lot of potential to this poem but it requires a bit more focus.  The idea that people are thread-bare is a great idea for a poem but at times I don't know what your trying to suggest with the analogy 

I wrote this 16 years ago...I would like to mold it into something better   Thanks for the feedback!

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Their Fabric is Thread-Bare

How sad it is,
day after day
they slip through my fingers,  This is a good image they slip through your fingers because their threadbare
most of them.
I don't reach their ears.
They don't see me.   I think these two lines take away from the previous image you've presented in the previous lines

How sad it is,
that they were not shown
the fabric of life;
the sweet sweat of life,  I don't know how this line talks of the fabric of life
the sunny breeze of life,
the smile from the soul
because of life.

How frightening it is;
they lack human compassion.
They flaunt, they jeer;
they care less who's near.
All for them
and them for themselves.  A very good closing stanza

Their fabric is thread-bare.  Great way to end the poem