Writing Prompt: Poetry Exercise

I liked this prompt instantly and thought I would give it a try and share what I came up with. I did both the poetry version and the prose variation with ten lines each.

Poetry Prompt - Write a poem that starts with a one word title, two words in the first line, three in the next, and continues by adding one word per line. (Variation: use as a prose exercise.)

Awful.
That's it.
Just completely awful.
It all felt wasted.
Why had I even bothered?
Spent all that time and energy.
I wanted think there was a purpose.
Even I knew that would be a lie.
My script was loads better than okay or good.
I'd put my mind into it, but it doesn't matter.

Prose Version:

Crinkled. Empty basket. Piled very high. None made it in. Nothing I thought up shined. Every idea seemed so unbearably flat. Some of the pages were even blank. Other sheets had a feeble line or two. Maybe what they say about me is exactly right. Even so, I thought, I still had to try.