Advice from Uncle Ken

The picture used here is from 'Ohio Impromptu,' a Samuel Beckett play I saw off Broadway in 1983. In it a man sits beside himself speaking of youthful things he can't reconcile.
It is not the inspiration for what follows, I just thought it apt to use. Beckett won't mind, he died years ago and so has no regrets now.

Advice from Uncle Ken

When I was 17, elders told me of life,
  My aunt, my parents friends, did advise me kindly,
"Son, study something that will make you a career,’
"Save while you’re young, have kids while you’re young, and marry,"
  So much begrudged advice I now wish I’d taken,
Would I could return and meet me, at 17…?
  "Hi, I’m Ken, related to you in the future,"
  Then "May I give you some advice?" And tell him,
"Uh, thanks Uncle Ken from the future, I'll do that,
  Just as soon as my teenage hormones decrease to,
  Like, where yours are, Grampy." And I’d walk away,
I can’t fault the kid, I did the same at his age,
Thus youthful follies become our folie’s a’deux,
In the evening we’ll soon call our second childhood