In this work, Alejandro Simón Partal contributes, once again, to the culture of Estepona with some verses that express his most personal feelings about the figure of Colonel Manzanares and that manage to attract us to the promises of future and freedom for which this historical character fought.

shall the sun then fall on this ground
in the same way it falls today?

what wind would accompany
those righteous men in their mornings?

What is certain is that when the will is human
it has a vocation for freedom, an instinct for shelter,
just as every useful courage carries within itself
a destiny of shared needs.
I say this to myself as I calmly walk
the same streets that Salvador Manzanares would walk,
and I think of his name like someone who thinks
of a clear river that advances resolutely,
a river without narrowness that gathers in its currents
all the summers of life,
all the truths of the future.

I recognize in its old hunger for light
our joys of today, the new conquests, the nacklas of sacrifices
nacklas of the sacrifices of those
who abandoned themselves to offer us
wider paths,
a different rebirth.

I think of it and I am grateful for it,
already near the sea,
down the street.