Explain Love to an Alien...

This was a quick assignment from my English Writing class. The following are the instructions and my explantion.

An Alien from a distant galaxy has just arrived on Earth and listened
to your love song. The Alien asks you, "What is this thing called
'love' that I have just heard about in this song?" The Alien's
species seems to be quite different than our species. All you know for
sure is:
a. there is no such thing as gender for them
b. they reproduce asexually (in asexual reproduction, only one parent
is needed)
c. they communicate with each other telepathically
d. they do not pair-bond (their family and social structure is
communal)

Explain what "love" means (as it is used in your song) such that
the Alien will be able to gain a full understanding of the song.



Hail, Oh-Great-Omnipotent-Alien-Presence. So I hear you've been askin' 'bout love, ya? Well, you just get right to the heart of things don't ya? This thing we humans call "love," well heck, it's a mystery to us as well. We just can't seem to decide on a universal definition of it. It can great and it can be horrible. It can make you wanna jump and shout but may also lead to you slitting your wrists in its name (a rather popular, if not fashionable, way of getting attention for us humans.) I don't know if I can actually put into words what love is, but here goes: love is caring about something or someone. It is having a stake in the well being and outcome of the thing or person.
Now, I realize that we can care about a lot of thing, but I'm talking about caring in a magnitude that's disproportionally greater than the other mundane cares. In the song "It's Not You It's Me" by The Little Willies that you just heard, I wanna call your attention not to the actual word "love," but to the overall theme of the song. Rather than staying in a relationship where they do not care for each other any longer, Miss Norah Jones opted to love herself and get out. That is a form of love.
For us humans, we are not as connected as your species. There are people who believe that human beings, as a species, are inherently connected to each other in a special way. That may be horse-fodder or not, but one thing remains clear, we are not capable of communicating to one another in your species' fashion yet. Therefore we must rely on verbal communication, that is, relaying messages to one another by the use of sounds, or sonic vibration. Obviously we do not have the time to travel the earth and verbally communicate with every member of our species, so you can see how it came to be that we surround ourselves with what we call a "society" or "community." It may be helpful to think of it as a "sub-species."
Within the communities, there are concentric circles of "sub-communities" such as: nation, state, city, neighborhood, friends, family, lover etc... The order of these "sub-communities" are different of everyone, based on their chosen priority. In the eastern region of our earth, it may not be unusual to find most humans prioritizing family as the highest, followed by friends and lovers. In my land, the United States of America, it may be more common to see lovers, or what we've deemed the great kind of lover, the "soul mate," as the ultimate community or relationship, while friends and family follow. In short, my friend, human life is all about relationships.
This concept of relationship may be foreign to you, as you communicate telepathically and instantanously, as well as coming from a communist, oops I mean communal society. But seeing how in our human life span we have limited time and ability to make connections with others of our species, life naturally becomes as matter of connections and relationships with one another.
"Love" is an ideal that we use to describe the highest or innermost concentric circle of connection. Great arts, literatures, and deeds have been done in the name of Love. So have terrible atrocities. It is a double edged sword, my friend. You may ask, why have we not done away with such a volatile and unstable thing? Simple. Because Love is us. Love is human... But being an alien, I wouldn't expect you to grok it. Now get off my planet.